The Travels of Marco Polo · Character

Girolamo Ramusio

Also known as Girolamo

  • Minor
  • First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 13

He belongs to Venice’s world of letters, where a name can carry the promise of a mind at work. Beyond that quiet intellectual presence, the text leaves him tantalizingly undefined.

Gender
male
Age
Adult
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 13
Books
1

Girolamo Ramusio appears as a Venetian littérateur and the younger brother of Paolo Ramusio. The text gives no further account of his life, relationships, or development, leaving his place in the story brief and lightly sketched.

Description

The text identifies Girolamo Ramusio as a Venetian littérateur but gives no physical details. His height, build, coloring, hair, eyes, facial features, clothing, and distinguishing marks are not described, so a faithful visual rendering should leave them open.

Story so far

  1. BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

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