biography
| name: |
Rustichello da Pisa
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pronunciation:
[rustikayloh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (13th-c)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Pisa, Tuscany, W Italy. He spent a long time in France, where he assembled the material from the Breton cycle that would shape his chivalry work Meliadus, which he wrote in a mixture of French–Venetian. While in a Genoese jail in 1298, he met Venetian traveller Marco Polo, who dictated his Il Milione, which Rustichello wrote in French with the title Livre des merveilles du monde. |
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