国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE 1567-72.
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belonging specially to this period, three honoured names must be
recalled here : Commendatore (afterwards Baron) C RISTO-
FORO NEGRI, the large-hearted Founder and First President of
the Geographical Society of Italy, from whom Yule received
his first public recognition as a geographer, Commendatore
GUGLIELMO BERCHET (affectionately nicknamed it Bello e
Buono), ever generous in learned help, who became a most
dear and honoured friend, and the Hon. GEORGE P. MARSH,
U.S. Envoy to the Court of Italy, a man, both as scholar and
friend, unequalled in his nation, perhaps almost unique anywhere.
Those who only knew Yule in later years, may like some
account of his daily life at this time. It was his custom to rise fairly
early ; in summer he sometimes went to bathe in the sea,5S or for
a walk before breakfast ; more usually he would write until break-
fast, which he preferred to have alone. After breakfast he looked
through his notebooks, and before ten o'clock was usually walking
rapidly to the library where his work lay. He would work there
until two or three o'clock, when he returned home, read the
Times, answered letters, received or paid visits, and then resumed
work on his book, which he often continued long after the rest of
the household were sleeping. Of course his family saw but little
of him under these circumstances, but when he had got a chapter
ofMas-co into shape, or struck out some new discovery of interest,
he would carry it to his wife to read. She always took great
interest in his work, and he had great faith in her literary instinct
as a sound as well as sympathetic critic.
The first fruits of Yule's Polo studies took the form of a
review of Pauthier's edition of Marco Polo, contributed to the
Quarterly Review in 1868.
In 1870 the great work itself appeared, and received prompt
generous recognition by the grant of the very beautiful gold
medal of the Geographical Society of Italy,59 followed in 1872 by
the award of the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical
Society, while the Geographical and Asiatic Societies of Paris,
the Geographical Societies of Italy and Berlin, the Academy of
Bologna, and other learned bodies, enrolled him as an Honorary
Member.
58 After 1869 he discontinued sea-bathing.
59 This was Yule's first geographical honour, but he had been elected into the Athenaeum Club, under " Rule II.," in January, 1867.
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