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Chapter 212 : 23. CICOGNA, EMMANUELE ANTONIO. Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Ill.u.s.trate.

23. CICOGNA, EMMANUELE ANTONIO. Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Ill.u.s.trate. Venezia, 1824-1843.

Contains valuable notices regarding the Polo family, especially in vol. ii.

24. ReMUSAT, JEAN PIERRE ABEL. _Melanges Asiatiques_. Paris, 1825.

_Nouveaux Melanges As._ Paris, 1829.

The latter contains (i. 381 seqq.) an article on Marsden's _Marco Polo_, and one (p. 397 seqq.) upon Zurla's Book.

25. ANTOLOGIA, edited by VIEUSSIEUX. Tom. xix. B. pp. 92-124. Firenze, 1825.

A review of the publication of the old French Text by the Soc. de Geographie.

26. ANNALI UNIVERSALI DI STATISTICA. Vol. xvi. p. 286. Milano. 1828.

Article by F. CUSTODI.

27. WALCKENAER, Baron C. _Vies de plusieurs Personnages Celebres des temps anciens et modernes_. Laon, 1830, 2 vol. 8vo.

This contains a life of Marco Polo, vol. ii. pp. 1-34.

28. ST. JOHN, JAMES AUGUSTUS. _Lives of Celebrated Travellers_. London (circa 1831).

Contains a life of Marco Polo, which I regret not to have seen.

29. COOLEY, W.D. _Hist. of Maritime and Inland Discovery_. London, (circa 1831).

This excellent work contains a good chapter on Marco Polo.

30. RITTER, CARL. _Die Erdkunde von Asien_. Berlin, 1832, seqq.

This great work abounds with judicious comments on Polo's Geography, most of which have been embodied in Burck's edition.

31. DELECLUZE, M. Article on Marco Polo in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ for 1st July, 1832. Vol. vii. 8vo, pp. 24.

32. PAULIN PARIS. Papers of much value on the MSS. of Marco Polo, etc., in _Bulletin de la Soc. de Geographie_ for 1833, tom. xix. pp. 23-31; as well as in _Journal Asiatique_, ser. II. tom. xii. pp. 244-54; _L'Inst.i.tut, Journal des Sciences, &c._, Sect. II tom. xvi. Jan, 1851.

33. MALTE-BRUN. _Precis de la Geog. Universelle_, 4th Ed. par HUOT. Paris, 1836.

Vol. i. (pp. 551 seqq.) contains a section on Polo, neither good nor correct.

34. DE MONTeMONT, ALBERT. _Bibliotheque Universelle des voyages_.

In vol. x.x.xi. pp. 33-51 there is a Notice of Marco Polo.

35. PALGRAVE, Sir FRANCIS. _The Merchant and the Friar_. London, 1837.

The Merchant is Marco Polo, who is supposed to visit England, after his return from the East, and to become acquainted with the Friar Roger Bacon.

The book consists chiefly of their conversations on many subjects.

It does not affect the merits of this interesting book that Bacon is believed to have died in 1292, some years before Marco's return from the East.

36. D'AVEZAC, M. Remarks in his most valuable _Notice sur les Anciens Voyages de Tartarie, &c._, in the _Recueil de Voyages et de Memoires publie par la Societe de Geographie_, tom. iv. pp. 407 seqq. Paris,1839. Also article in the _Bulletin de la Soc. de Geog., &c._, for August, 1841; and in _Journal Asiat._ ser. II. tom. xvi. p. 117.

37. PARAVEY, Chev. DE. Article in _Journ. Asiatique_, ser. II. tom. xvi.

1841, p. 101.

38. HAMMER-PURGSTALL, in _Bull. de la Soc. de Geog._, tom. iii. No. 21, p.

45.

39. QUATREMeRE, eTIENNE. His translations and other works on Oriental subjects abound in valuable indirect ill.u.s.trations of M. Polo; but in _Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibliotheque du Rio_, tom. xvi. Pt. i.

pp. 281-286, Paris, 1843, there are some excellent remarks both on the work itself and on Marsden's Edition of it.

40. MACFARLANE, CHARLESE _Romance of Travel_. London, C. Knight. 1846.

A good deal of intelligent talk on Marco Polo.

41. MEYER, ERNST H.F. _Geschichte der Botanik_. Konigsberg, 1854-57.

In vol. iv, there is a special chapter on Marco Polo's notices of plants.

42. THOMAS, Professor G.M. _Zu Marco Polo, aus einem Cod. ital.

Monacensis_ in the _Sitzungsberichten der Munchner Akademie_, 4th March, 1862, pp. 261-270

43. KHANIKOFF, NICOLAS DE. _Notice sur le Livre de Marco Polo, edite et commente par M.G. Pauthier_. Paris, 1866. Extracted from the _Journal Asiatique_. I have frequently quoted this with advantage, and sometimes have ventured to dissent from it.

44. CAHIER, Pere. Criticism of Pauthier's _Marco Polo_, and reply by G.

Pauthier, in _etudes Litteraires et Religieuses_ of 1866 and 1867. Paris.

45. BARTHeLEMY ST. HILAIRE. A series of articles on Marco Polo in the _Journal des Savants_ of January-May, 1867, chiefly consisting of a reproduction of Pauthier's views and deductions.

46. DE GUBERNATIS, Prof. ANGELO. _Memoria intorno ai Viaggiatori italiani nelle Indie Orientali, dal secolo XIII. a tutto il XVI_. Firenze, 1867.

47. BIANCONI, Prof. GIUSEPPE. _Degli Scritti di Marco Polo e dell' Uccello_ RUC _da lui menzionato._ 2 parts large 8vo. Bologna, 1862 and 1868, pp. 64, 40.

A meritorious essay, containing good remarks on the comparison of different Texts.

48. KINGSLEY, HENRY. _Tales of Old Travel renarrated_. London, 1869.

This begins with Marco Polo. The work has gone through several editions, but I do not know whether the author had corrected some rather eccentric geography and history that were presented in the first. Mr. Kingsley is the author of another story about Marco Polo in a Magazine, but I cannot recover the reference.

49. NOTES AND QUERIES for CHINA AND j.a.pAN. This was published from January, 1867, to November, 1870, at Hong-Kong under able editors.h.i.+p, and contained some valuable notes connected with Marco Polo's chapters on China.

50. GHIKA, Princess ELENA (_Dora d'Istria_). _Marco Polo, Il Cristoforo Colombo dell' Asia_. Trieste, 1869, 8vo, pp. 39.

51. BUFFA, Prof. GASPARE. _Marco Polo, Orazione commemorativa, Letta nel R.

Liceo Cristoforo Colombo il 24 marzo 1872_. Genova, 8vo, pp. 18.

52. EDINBURGH REVIEW, January, 1872, pp. 1-36. A review of the first edition of the present work, acknowledged by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, and full of Oriental knowledge. (See also No. 19 supra.)

53. OCEAN HIGHWAYS, for December, 1872, p. 285. An interesting letter on Marco Polo's notices of Persia, by Major OLIVER ST. JOHN, R.E.