The Travels of Marco Polo · Character
St. Jerome
Also known as Jerome
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 40
St. Jerome enters the account through the quiet authority of scholarship, a name associated with the work of interpreting older writings. The text gives no portrait of him, leaving his presence to the suggestion of a patient and learned mind.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 40
- Books
- 1
St. Jerome is invoked as the Church father believed to have abridged the Cosmography of Aethicus. The book offers no further account of his life, relationships, or personal transformation; his place here is that of a scholarly authority attached to an earlier text.
Description
The account identifies St. Jerome as an early Christian Church father and scholar but provides no physical description. His age, build, coloring, hair, eyes, facial features, clothing, and distinguishing marks are not specified.
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BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
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