cut illustrating a traveller in a chariot drawn by
elephants.

III.--TITLES OF SUNDRY BOOKS AND PAPERS WHICH TREAT OF MARCO POLO AND
HIS BOOK.

1. SALVIATI, Cavalier LIONARDO. _Degli Avvertimenti delta Lingua sopra'l
Decamerone_. In Venezia, 1584.

Has some brief remarks on Texts of Polo, and on references to him or his
story in Villani and Boccaccio.

2. MARTINI, MARTINO. _Novus Atlas Sinensis_. Amstelodami, 1655.

The Maps are from Chinese sources, and are surprisingly good. The
Descriptions, also from Chinese works but interspersed with information of
Martini's own, have, in their completeness, never been superseded. This
estimable Jesuit often refers to Polo with affectionate zeal, identifying
his localities, and justifying his descriptions. The edition quoted in this
book forms a part of Blaeu's Great Atlas (1663). It was also reprinted in
Thevenot's Collection.

3. KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. _China Illustrata_. Amstelodami, 1667.

He also often refers to Polo, but chiefly in borrowing from Martini.

4. MAGAILLANS, GABRIEL DE (properly _Magalhaens_). _Nouvelle Description de
la Chine, contenant la description des Particularites les plus
considerables de ce Grand Empire_. Paris, 1688, 4to.

Contains many excellent elucidations of Polo's work.

5. CORONELLI, VINCENZO. _Atlante Veneto_. Venezia, 1690.

Has some remarks on Polo, and the identity of Cathay and Cambaluc with
China and Peking.

6. MURATORI, LUD. ANT. _Perfetta Poesia, con note di_ SALVINI. Venezia,
1724.

In vol. ii. p. 117, Salvini makes some remarks on the language in which he
supposes Polo to have composed his Book.

7. FOSCARINI, MARCO. _Delia Letteratura Veneziana_. Padova, 1752. Vol. i.
414 seqq.

8. FOSCARINI, MARCO. _Frammento inedito di, intorno at Viaggiatori
Veneziani_; accompanied by Remarks on Buerck's German edition of Marco
Polo, by TOMMASO GAR (late Director of the Venice Archives). In _Archivio
Storico Italiano_, Append. tom. iv. p. 89 seqq. [See _Bibliography_, supra
8-8, p. 557.]

9. ZENO, APOSTOLO, _Annotazioni sopra la Biblioteca dell' Eloquenza
Italiana di Giusto Fontanini_. Venezia, 1753.

See Marsden's Introduction, _passim_.

10. TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO. _Storia della Letteratura Italiana_. Modena,
1772-1783.

There is a disquisition on Polo, with some judicious remarks (iv. pp.
68-73).

11. TOALDO, GIUSEPPE. _Saggi di Studj Veneti nell' Astronomia e nella
Marina_. Ven. 1782.

This work, which I have n