Die Reisen des Venezianers Marco Polo

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Teubner, 1855 - 631 pagina's
 

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Pagina 34 - The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the thirteenth century ; being a description, by that early traveller, of remarkable places and things in the eastern parts of the world ; translated from the Italian, with notes. By Wm.
Pagina 38 - ... adduces evidence to show that it was not written in Latin, as Ramusio erroneously understood, but in a dialect of Italian ; and in this conclusion he is warranted by the decided opinion of the celebrated Apostolo Zeno, who expresses himself as follows : — " lo sono persuaso che il Polo la scrivesse primieramente, non come vuole il Ramusio, in lingua latina, ma nella volgar sua natia, e che poco dopo da altri fosse translatata in Latino.

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