29. Ramusio's preface, containing this account, and also the story of how Rusticiano came to write the book at Marco Polo's dictation at Genoa, is translated in Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., pp. 4-8.
30. He mentions these in Marco Polo, op. cit., pp. 136, 138, 344.
31. Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., p. 79.
32. On Rusticiano (who is mistakenly called a Genoese by Ramusio), see ibid., Introd., pp. 56 ff.
33. Paulin Paris, quoted ibid., Introd., p. 61.