The essay investigates Maria Bellonci’s engagement with the Polian text, with particular attention to the twofold work she carried out in 1982: the rewriting of the Milione into modern Italian, and the narrative recasting of the story in the novel Marco Polo. Both works were published by ERI to coincide with the release of the television series dedicated to Marco Polo, directed by Giuliano Montaldo. The analysis concludes reflecting on how this narrative and philological mediation prepared the ground for Bellonci’s final work, Rinascimento privato.
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Chapter Title
Il Marco Polo di Bellonci tra riscrittura e invenzione
Authors
Emmanuela Carbé
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0883-3.18
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Il Milione nel tempo tra Asia ed Europa: Marco Polo nelle letterature medievali e contemporanee
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Siena, 7–8 novembre 2024) e del Seminario “700 anni di Marco Polo” (Firenze, 11 dicembre 2024)
Editors
Paola Mocella
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Number of Pages
178
Publication Year
2025
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0883-3
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979-12-215-0882-6
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979-12-215-0883-3
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0884-0
Series Title
ConTesti medievali. Studi, ricerche e fonti