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 19 March 2024.]

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