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23. CICOGNA, EMMANUELE ANTONIO. Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Ill.u.s.trate. Venezia, 1824-1843.

Contains valuable notices regarding the Polo family, especially in vol. ii.

24. ReMUSAT, JEAN PIERRE ABEL. _Melanges Asiatiques_. Paris, 1825.

_Nouveaux Melanges As._ Paris, 1829.

The latter contains (i. 381 seqq.) an article on Marsden's _Marco Polo_, and one (p. 397 seqq.) upon Zurla's Book.

25. ANTOLOGIA, edited by VIEUSSIEUX. Tom. xix. B. pp. 92-124. Firenze, 1825.

A review of the publication of the old French Text by the Soc. de Geographie.

26. ANNALI UNIVERSALI DI STATISTICA. Vol. xvi. p. 286. Milano. 1828.

Article by F. CUSTODI.

27. WALCKENAER, Baron C. _Vies de plusieurs Personnages Celebres des temps anciens et modernes_. Laon, 1830, 2 vol. 8vo.

This contains a life of Marco Polo, vol. ii. pp. 1-34.

28. ST. JOHN, JAMES AUGUSTUS. _Lives of Celebrated Travellers_. London (circa 1831).

Contains a life of Marco Polo, which I regret not to have seen.

29. COOLEY, W.D. _Hist. of Maritime and Inland Discovery_. London, (circa 1831).

This excellent work contains a good chapter on Marco Polo.

30. RITTER, CARL. _Die Erdkunde von Asien_. Berlin, 1832, seqq.

This great work abounds with judicious comments on Polo's Geography, most of which have been embodied in Burck's edition.

31. DELECLUZE, M. Article on Marco Polo in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ for 1st July, 1832. Vol. vii. 8vo, pp. 24.

32. PAULIN PARIS. Papers of much value on the MSS. of Marco Polo, etc., in _Bulletin de la Soc. de Geographie_ for 1833, tom. xix. pp. 23-31; as well as in _Journal Asiatique_, ser. II. tom. xii. pp. 244-54; _L'Inst.i.tut, Journal des Sciences, &c._, Sect. II tom. xvi. Jan, 1851.

33. MALTE-BRUN. _Precis de la Geog. Universelle_, 4th Ed. par HUOT. Paris, 1836.

Vol. i. (pp. 551 seqq.) contains a section on Polo, neither good nor correct.

34. DE MONTeMONT, ALBERT. _Bibliotheque Universelle des voyages_.

In vol. x.x.xi. pp. 33-51 there is a Notice of Marco Polo.

35. PALGRAVE, Sir FRANCIS. _The Merchant and the Friar_. London, 1837.

The Merchant is Marco Polo, who is supposed to visit England, after his return from the East, and to become acquainted with the Friar Roger Bacon.

The book consists chiefly of their conversations on many subjects.

It does not affect the merits of this interesting book that Bacon is believed to have died in 1292, some years before Marco's return from the East.

36. D'AVEZAC, M. Remarks in his most valuable _Notice sur les Anciens Voyages de Tartarie, &c._, in the _Recueil de Voyages et de Memoires publie par la Societe de Geographie_, tom. iv. pp. 407 seqq. Paris,1839. Also article in the _Bulletin de la Soc. de Geog., &c._, for August, 1841; and in _Journal Asiat._ ser. II. tom. xvi. p. 117.