The Travels of Marco Polo - The Original Classic Edition. Pisa Marco

in Dal Borgo, op. cit. ii. 316.

       [5] The Abate Spotorno in his Storia Letteraria della Liguria, II. 219, fixes on a Genoese philosopher called Andalo del Negro, mentioned by Boccaccio.

       [6] I quote from Galignani's ed. of Prose Works, v. 712. This has "Rusticien de Puise." In this view of the fictitious character of the names of Rusticien and the rest, Sir Walter seems to have been following Ritson, as I gather from a quotation in Dunlop's H. of Fiction. (Liebrecht's German Version, p. 63.)

       [7] Giron le Courtois, and the conclusion of Tristan.

       [8] The passage runs thus as quoted (from the preamble of the Meliadus--I suspect in one of the old printed editions):--