Gli estratti poliani di Bartolomeo Ceffoni (Firenze, codice Riccardiano 1036)

The excerpts from Marco Polo’s book collected by Bartolomeo Ceffoni (Florence, MS Ricc. 1036) · Bartolomeo Ceffoni is mainly known as the author of some marginal notes to the ms. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ricc. 1036, a copy of Dante’s Commedia transcribed by Bartolomeo di Andrea Mazzoni da Lucca. In this same codex, between 1430 and 1432, Ceffoni also collected and copied a series of different texts, among which seventeen excerpts from the Devisement dou monde of Marco Polo (f. 203rb-204rb) studied for the first time by Luigi Foscolo Benedetto in 1928. This essay offers the first complete edition of these excerpts, together with a commentary aimed to place them in context of the history and reception of Marco Polo’s work.