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Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East". These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of " East" and "West" in Polo's writings.
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Retrieved Sep 18 from https: No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder. May 1, Words: So every manuscript and all copies were hand-written. Although Marco Polo scholar David Perry says, "In his own time…I don't think we have any evidence he was particularly well known.
It was soon translated into Tuscan, Venetian and Latin. Unfortunately the original manuscripts disappeared almost immediately.
But there are about very early manuscripts of Marco Polo's book in existence. The tales — most of them solid and factual; some outright fanciful — have fuelled a kind of Marco Polo cult that has lasted over years. Scholars have argued for centuries whether he went to all those places, whether his stories are true.
Someone offers him the chance to save his soul if he will just admit that what he wrote was mostly lies. And although that story is pure myth, it comes close to the essence of the story of Marco Polo.
He is the promise that there will always be marvels in the world left to discover. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.
Sign in to use this feature. Find it on Scholar. Kublai built a polyglot, heterogeneous empire out of countless conquered peoples. He also comments on the internal evidence within the narrative that give some indication whether Polo experienced the various events first hand or is retelling stories told to him. We know about Marco Polo based on his own writing that he did while in a Genoese prison, written with the help of a romance writer from Pisa, and written first in broken French. The book is also an excellent source on the remarkable reign of Kublai Khan.
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