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 Buerck'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'Institut,
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. xxxi. 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 illustrations 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. Koenigsberg, 1854-57.
In vol. iv, there is a special chapter on Marco Polo's notices of plants.
