Marco Polo, the Book, and the Dominicans

The first evident connections between Marco Polo and members of the Dominican order were made when he began traveling to East with his father, uncle, two Dominicans who rapidly turned back. Despite this unlucky episode, have played an important role in diffusion reception Divisament dou monde (i.e., Book Polo). Latin translation by friar Francesco Pipino Bologna became most disseminated version book be printed. We can deduce that another is also origin. Archival documents attest links Venetian Dominicans. Members Order Preachers, quickly manifested a strong interest book, are responsible for circulating text their preaching teaching, not only across Italy but France England. This essay highlights among Polo, combining approaches based on codicology, diplomatics, history, philology, religion, art history.