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3 unusual facts about Henry Yule


Bisignano

According to Henry Yule, Giovanni de Marignolli, famous for his account of travels in China, was made bishop of Bisignano in 1354.

Edward Delmar Morgan

Morgan put is translating skills to work in 1876, and translated Colonel Nikolay Przhevalsky’s Mongolia, the Tangut Country and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet from Russian, edited by Sir Henry Yule.

The Travels of Marco Polo

The edition of Benedetto, Marco Polo, Il Milione, under the patronage of the Comitato Geografico Nazionale Italiano (Florence: Olschki, 1928), collated sixty additional manuscript sources, in addition to some eighty that had been collected by Henry Yule, for his 1871 edition.


Jackfruit

Henry Yule translated the book in Jordanus Catalani's (f. 1321–1330) Mirabilia descripta: the wonders of the East.


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