Ii. 316.
[5] The Abate Spotorno in his Storia Letteraria della Liguria, II. 219,
fixes on a Genoese philosopher called Andalo del Negro, mentioned by
Boccaccio.
[6] I quote from Galignani's ed. of Prose Works, v. 712. This has
"Rusticien de Puise." In this view of the fictitious character of
the names of Rusticien and the rest, Sir Walter seems to have been
following Ritson, as I gather from a quotation in Dunlop's H. of
Fiction. (Liebrecht's German Version, p. 63.)
[7] Giron le Courtois, and the conclusion of Tristan.
[8] The passage runs thus as quoted (from the preamble of the
Meliadus - I suspect in one of the old printed editions): -
"Aussi Luces du Gau (Gas) translata en langue Francoise une partie de
l'Hystoire de Monseigneur Tristan, et moins assez qu'il ne deust.
Moult commenca bien son livre et si ny mist tout les faicts de
Tristan, ains la greigneur partie. Apres s'en entremist Messire Gasse
le Blond, qui estoit parent au Roy Henry, et divisa l'Hystoire de
Lancelot du Lac, et d'autre chose ne parla il mye grandement en son
livre. Messire Robert de Borron s'en entremist et Helye de Borron, par
la priere du dit Robert de Borron, et pource que compaignons feusmes
d'armes longuement, je commencay mon livre," etc. (Liebrecht's
Dunlop, p. 80.) If this passage be authentic it would set beyond
doubt the age of the de Borrons and the other writers of Anglo-French
Round Table Romances, who are placed by the Hist. Litteraire de la
France, and apparently by Fr. Michel, under Henry II. I have no means
of pursuing the matter, and have preferred to follow Paulin Paris, who
places them under Henry III. I notice, moreover, that the Hist.
Litt. (xv. p. 498) puts not only the de Borrons but Rustician himself
under Henry II.; and, as the last view is certainly an error, the
first is probably so too.
[9] Transc. from MS. 6975 (now Fr. 355) of Paris Library.
[10] MSS. Francois, iii. 60-61.
[11] Ibid. 56-59.
[12] Introd. pp. lxxxvi.-vii. note.
[13] See Jour. As. ser. II. tom. xii. p. 251.
[14] "Seignors Enperaor, & Rois, Dux & Marquois, Cuens, Chevaliers &
Bargions [for Borgiois] & toutes gens qe uoles sauoir les deuerses
jenerasions des homes, & les deuersites des deuerses region dou
monde, si prennes cestui lire & le feites lire & chi troueres toutes
les grandismes meruoilles," etc.
[15] The portrait of Rustician here referred to would have been a precious
illustration for our book. But unfortunately it has not been
transferred to MS. 6961, nor apparently to any other noticed by Paulin
Paris.
[16] Jour. As. as above.
[17] See Liebrecht's Dunlop, p. 77; and MSS. Francois, II. 349, 353.
The alleged gift to Rustician is also put forth by D'Israeli the Elder
in his Amenities of Literature, 1841, I. p. 103.
[18] E.g. Geronimo, Girolamo; and garofalo, garofano; Cristoforo,
Cristovalo; gonfalone, gonfanone, etc.
[19] See the List in Archivio Stor.
![The Travels Of Marco Polo - Volume 1 Of 2 By Marco Polo And Rustichello Of Pisa
- Xii. The seal is
also engraved in Dal Borgo, op. cit. ii. 316.
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