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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO

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THE BROADWAY TRAVELLERS

THE BROADWAY TRAVELLERS

In 26 Volumes

I	An Account of Tibet	Desideri
II	Akbar and the Jesuits	du Jarric
III	Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada	de Andrada
IV	The Diary of Henry Teonge	Teonge
V	The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico	del Castillo
VI	Don Juan of Persia	Juan
VII	Embassy to Tamerlane	Clavijo
VIII	The English-American	Gage
IX	The First Englishmen in India	Locke
X	Five Letters	Corts
XI	Jahangir and the Jesuits	Guerreiro
XII	Jewish Travellers	Adler
XIII	Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman	Macdonald
XIV	Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage	Bontekoe
XV	Nova Francia	Lescarbot
XVI	Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure	Sherley
XVII	Travels and Adventures	Tafur
XVIII	Travels in Asia and Africa	Battuta
XIX	Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo	Hall
XX	Travels in Persia	Herbert
XXI	Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China Vol. I	Huc and Gabet
XXII	Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China Vol. II	Huc and Gabet
XXIII	Travels into Spain	DAulnoy
XXIV	The Travels of an Alchemist	Li
XXV	The Travels of Marco Polo	Benedetto
XXVI	The True History of His Captivity	Staden

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO

L F BENEDETTO

First published 1931 by RoutledgeCurzon

Published 2014 by Routledge

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The Travels of Marco Polo

ISBN: 0-415-34487-5

The Broadway Travellers

ISBN: 978-0-415-61215-9 (pbk)

From the French manuscript containing the recension used by Pauthier and Yule, dating from the middle of the Fourteenth Century

[B.M. Royal Manuscript 19. D. I. fol. 58(a)]

THE BROADWAY TRAVELLERS

EDITED BY SIR E. DENISON ROSS AND EILEEN POWER

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO

Translated into English from the text of
L. F. BENEDETTO

by
PROFESSOR ALDO RICCI

With an Introduction alld Illdex by
SIR E. DENISON ROSS

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Published by

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.
BROADWAY HOUSE, CARTER LANE, LONDON

First published in 1931

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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE EDINBURGH PRESS, EDINBURGH

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. MINIATURE IN THREE COMPARTMENTS

(a) The Emperor Baldwin and the Brothers Niccol and Matteo in Constantinople.

(b) The Brothers Polo before the Legate Tebaldo de Vicenza.

(c) The Brothers Polo set sail for the Black Sea.

From the French Manuscript containing the recension used by Pauthier and Yule dating from the middle of the Fourteenth Century.

(Royal Manuscript 19 D. I, fol. 58 (a)).

(Royal Manuscript 19 D. I, fol. 59 (b))

IN THE TEXT

SEAL OF KUBILAI KAAN (Hu-pi-lieh). This seal has the form of a rat in bronze.

SEAL OF CHINGIZ KHAN (Chng-chi-ss-han). This seal has the form of a tortoise in black jade.

THE GREAT MAGNIFICENCE OF PRESTER JOHN, LORD OF GREATER INDIA AND OF ETHIOPIA

MAPS

SEAL OF KUBILAI KAAN (Hu-pi-lieh).
This seal has the form of a rat in bronze.

SEAL OF KUBILAI KHAN [Chng-chi-ss-han].
This seal has the form of a tortoise in black jade.

TWO SEALS BEARING THE NAMES OF CHINGIZ KHAN AND KUBILAI KANN RECENTLY BROUGHT FROM CHINA

INTRODUCTION

M ARCO POLO, the son of Niccol Polo, was born in Venice in 1254. Soon after this date Niccol Polo and his brother Matteo set out on a journey for the purposes of trade in the East which eventually led them via Bukhara to the court of the Great Kaan Kubilai in Cathay, Kubilai was so well pleased with these Venetians that he despatched them on a mission to the Pope with letters inviting His Holiness to send one hundred educated missionaries who might convert his people to Christianity.

When the brothers, on their return journey, reached Acre in April 1269, they learnt that there was no Pope: for Clement IV had died in the previous year (29th November 1268) and no new Pope had been elected. When, in the middle of 1271, the cardinals had still not made their choice of Pope, the Polos set out again for Cathay, taking the seventeen-year-old Marco with them. They had not gone far when news came that a new Pope had at last been elected (1st September 1271). The new Pope, Gregory X, instead of complying with Kubilais request for one hundred missionaries, sent only two Dominicans, who, losing heart, turned back when they had gone only a very short distance.

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