Rustichello da Pisa

Claudio Lagomarsini (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.01: French Writing and Culture: Old French to the Middle Ages , 500-1400.
Vol. editors: Marianne Ailes (University of Bristol), Matthew Siôn Lampitt (University of Bristol), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born c. 1250
Died c. 1300
Activity c. 1270-c. 1300

Places

Active in France; Italy

Genres and Modes

Romance

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Rustichello's Works

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Rusticien de Pise (Old French: Rusticiaus de Pise, Italian: Rustichello da Pisa) was an Italian writer active in the French vernacular in the second half of the thirteenth or at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The extant manuscripts ascribe to Rusticien the composition of an

Arthurian Compilation

in French prose, sometimes titled

Livre de Meliadus

(Book of Meliadus) by the late scribes who assembled this work with the

Romance of Meliadus

, the first part of the

Guiron le Courtois

cycle. Rusticien also played an important part in the outline of the

Devisement dou monde

(Description of the World), the report of Marco Polo’s travels in the Far East.

The information we have about Rusticien’s life and career comes from the prologues of his works. At the beginning of the Arthurian

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Citation: Lagomarsini, Claudio. "Rustichello da Pisa". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 August 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13236, accessed 24 November 2024.]