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04120cam a22006134a 4500 001 C19EE3E42AF911DEBAFE5107A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20181009010727 008 990308s1999 ctuab b 001 0deng 010 $a 99024887 020 $a 9780300079715 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 0300079710 (cloth : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d C#P $d LHA $d XY4 $d NLGGC $d BTCTA $d LVB $d YDXCP $d BAKER $d IWV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a------ 050 00 $a G370.P9 $b L27 1999 082 00 $a 915.04/2 $2 21 084 $a 74.21 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Larner, John, $d 1930-2008. 245 1 $a Marco Polo and the discovery of the world / $c by John Larner. 260 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c c1999. 300 $a xiii, 250 p. : $b ill. (some col.), col. maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-242). 505 0 $a Images of Asia and the coming of the Mongols -- The Polos -- Marco Polo and Rustichello -- The making of the book -- The description of the world -- Varieties of the book -- Marco, merchants and missionaries -- Marco among the humanists -- Columbus and after -- Jesuits, imperialists and a conclusion -- A note on manuscripts of the book -- Times of travel to China by land -- Marco Polo and world maps of the fifteenth century. 520 $a After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo's Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range and influence of Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration. Larner assesses the findings of modern scholarship and offers an original account of Marco Polo and his family, of how and why the Book came into being, and of its reception over the centuries. Beginning with a discussion of the extent of European knowledge of Asia early in the thirteenth century, Larner considers what is known about Marco Polo's life and the composition of his text. He examines the Book's scope and sources (vindicating its author from recent claims that he never visited China), as well as the nature of Polo's cooperation with his co-author Rustichello da Pisa. He traces the manuscript forms and translations of the Book in the Middle Ages, its influence on western cartographers, its fortunes in the climate of fifteenth-century Humanism, the possible extent of its encouragement of Columbus, and its later evolution into such new guises as the object of historical scholarship and exotic curiosity. Finally, Larner provides a fresh view of the enigmatic Marco Polo who, despite a deliberate cultivation of impersonality, continues today to engage the attention of readers. 600 10 $a Polo, Marco, $d 1254-1323? $t Travels of Marco Polo. 650 0 $a Voyages and travels. 650 0 $a Travel, Medieval. 651 0 $a Asia $x Description and travel $v Early works to 1800. 600 14 $a Polo, Marco. 600 14 $a Polo, Marco $x Influence. 600 14 $a Polo, Marco. $t Book of Ser Marco Polo. 650 4 $a Exploration $x History. 650 4 $a Cartography $z Europe $x History. 650 4 $a Explorers $z Venice $z Venice $v Biography. 650 4 $a Civilization, Medieval $y 13th century. 650 17 $a Ontdekkingsreizen. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Reisbeschrijvingen. $2 gtt 650 6 $a Explorateurs $z Italie $v Biographies. 650 6 $a Voyage $x Histoire $y 500-1500 (Moyen AÌge). 651 6 $a Asie $x Descriptions et voyages. 941 $a 10 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525033044.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718074532.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926074930.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111033726.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415013330.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C19EE3E42AF911DEBAFE5107A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search