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Marco Polo, Rustichello of Pisa - The Travels of Marco Polo, 1
1891. p. xliii. to p. lvi.)
1889 Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889). By Coutts Trotter. (Dict. of National
Biography, lxiii. pp. 405-407.)
1903 Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., Corr. Inst.
France, by his daughter, Amy Frances Yule, L.A.Soc. Ant. Scot., etc.
Written for third edition of Yule's Marco Polo. Reprinted for private
circulation only.
[1] This list is based on the excellent preliminary List compiled by E.
Delmar Morgan, published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol.
vi., pp. 97-98, but the present compilers have much more than doubled
the number of entries. It is, however, known to be still incomplete,
and any one able to add to the list, will greatly oblige the compilers
by sending additions to the Publisher. - A. F. Y.
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.
I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS
Sec. 1. Obscurities, etc. 2. Ramusio his earliest Biographer; his Account
of Polo. 3. He vindicates Polo's Geography. 4. Compares him with
Columbus. 5. Recounts a Tradition of the Traveller's Return to Venice.
6. Recounts Marco's Capture by the Genoese. 7. His statements about
Marco's liberation and marriage. 8. His account of the Family Polo and
its termination.
II. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE JOURNEYS OF THE POLO
FAMILY
Sec. 9. State of the Levant. 10. The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia
and Eastern Europe. 11. China. 12. India and Indo-China.
III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS TILL THEIR FINAL
RETURN FROM THE EAST
Sec. 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to Nobility. 15. The Elder
Marco Polo. 16. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence their Travels. 17. Their
intercourse with Kublai Kaan. 18. Their return home, and Marco's
appearance on the scene. 19. Second Journey of the Polo Brothers,
accompanied by Marco. (See App. L. 1.) 20. Marco's Employment by Kublai
Kaan; and his Journeys. 21. Circumstances of the departure of the Polos
from the Kaan's Court. 22. They pass by Persia to Venice. Their
relations there.
IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT S. GIOVANNI
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