Polo dictated these tales to a scribe, a writer of romances named Rustichello, while the two men shared a cell in a Genoese prison. Just how much Rustichello added to the text nobody knows. Yet most of what Polo tells us about his overland journey to Asia checks out. He traveled during a relatively peaceful time, so this is not a book about taking physical risks. Nor is it as accessible to modern readers as many of the books on this list. Yet it is without question the founding adventure book of the modern world. Polo gave to the age of exploration that followed the marvels of the East, the strange customs, the fabulous riches, the tribes with gold teeth. It was a Book of Dreams, an incentive, a goad. Out of it came Columbus (whose own copy of the book was heavily annotated), Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and the rest of modern history.
比小说更传奇的历史游记。
带领整个世界进入地理大发现的热潮,
也彻底改变了人类对世界的想象。
马可·波罗是世界历史上第一个将地大物博的中国向欧洲人作出报道的人。本书记载了他于13世纪从威尼斯出发,穿过陆上丝绸之路来到中国的经历。
在书中,马可·波罗盛赞了中国的繁盛昌明; 发达的工商业、繁华热闹的市集、华美廉价的丝绸锦缎、宏伟壮观的都城、完善方便的驿道交通、普遍流通的纸币等。使每一个读过这本书的人都对东方无限神往,揭开世界地理大发现的热潮,也彻底改变了人类对世界的想象。
《马可波罗行纪》被翻译成多种欧洲文字,对于文艺复兴前夜闭塞的欧洲,这不单是一部游记,而是启蒙式作品。哥伦布也是因为阅读本书,立志寻找一条通往中国的新航路,而踏上航海探险,寻觅一生。
编辑推荐:
*版本价值*
1、逐页复刻,中世纪手抄本。
★整本手抄插画,内文全四色。线装贴布,内文可完全平摊。灰板裱糊,用料扎实美观。烫金工艺,打造藏品书籍。
★欧洲贵族的书柜,不仅得成套精装书,更体现身份的是手抄本!
★版式、插图、字体设计都具有很丰富的艺术特征,整个设计在动感同时也具有很好的平衡性、对称性。
★艺术史上不容忽略的作品。其明艳的色彩运用,也是文艺复兴的色彩启蒙。
2、国际汉学家强强联合,zui懂中国的底本“百衲本”。
【底本】百衲本,以最古的抄本-F本为底本,从近150种抄本、刊本中选取最重要的17种综合编著。其中?部珍稀抄本Z本是首次被世人发现。
【编者】国际两大汉学家强强联合,
慕阿德Arthur Christopher Moule,英国⼈,出⽣于杭州。剑桥⼤学中国语⾔与历史教授。任职期间最重要的成绩就是《马可波罗行纪》。
伯希和Paul Pelliot,法国语言学家、汉学家、探险家。曾任法国亚洲协会主席。1939年当选为中国中央研究院通讯院士。
【译者】对外文化专家
兰莹,先后就读于外交学院英语系、中国人民大学美术学院。现为公职人员,从事对外文化艺术交流工作。译有甲骨文丛书《仙那度:追寻马可·波罗的脚步》等作品。
*阅读价值*
★耳熟能详,强大的文化母体。通常被简述为“马可·波罗回国后,欧洲人大开眼界,东方遍地是黄金”。
★神秘东方,不仅对于当时的欧洲,对于现当下的读者一样是神秘的。比小说更传奇的历史游记。
★冒险图腾,以欧洲商旅的视界来描述元朝的政治经济、宗教风俗,各民族的地志风采,以及许多奇闻轶事。
★文艺复兴启蒙,欧洲文艺复兴的前夜,给闭塞的欧洲人创造了一个模范的文明世界。诱发了地理大发现。
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Polo dictated these tales to a scribe, a writer of romances named Rustichello, while the two men shared a cell in a Genoese prison. Just how much Rustichello added to the text nobody knows. Yet most of what Polo tells us about his overland journey to Asia checks out. He traveled during a relatively peaceful time, so this is not a book about taking physical risks. Nor is it as accessible to modern readers as many of the books on this list. Yet it is without question the founding adventure book of the modern world. Polo gave to the age of exploration that followed the marvels of the East, the strange customs, the fabulous riches, the tribes with gold teeth. It was a Book of Dreams, an incentive, a goad. Out of it came Columbus (whose own copy of the book was heavily annotated), Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and the rest of modern history.