Rustichello of Pisa
Rusticello of Pisa , (12?? - 13??) is a writer of Italian origin but of French language.
He is member of the court of the future Edouard Ier of England, then duke of Aquitaine, that he accompanies in Croisade in 1270-73.
He wrote for this one two novels of the cycle of Arthur:
Gyron the courteous one, with that the currency of the weapons of all the knights of the Roundtable and also Meliadus de Leonnoys: together several other noble prowesses of knight faictes by the roy Arthur, Palamedes and Galliot Pre . This last work is based on a book of Edouard Ier and is written in Sicily or they are blocked on the way for the crusade.
It is mainly known to be, in 1296, the companion of captivity of Marco Polo to Genoa, of which it writes the account of the voyages in China, Dévisement of the so known world as the Livre of the Wonders .
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