Egli e vero che al tempo che baldovino era imperadore di gostantinopoli cio fu ne gli anni di cristo 1250, messere niccolaio polo, lo quale fu padre di messere marco, e messere matteo polo suo fratello, questi due fratelli erano nella citta di gostantinopoli venuti da vi. Marco polo il milione 2 lor partita di gostantinopoli. Marco polo tells about the arrival of his father and uncle. I grandi autori della letteratura italiana, roma 2012. Did marco polo, the most illustrious traveller in history, ever venture to china. When i returned home from china in 1876, i was introduced to colonel henry yule, at the india office, by our common friend, dr. Marco polo, il milione, chapter cxxiii and cxxiv, page from the book the travels of marco polo il milione, originally published during polos lifetime 12981299, but frequently reprinted and translated.
Marco polo was a venetian adventurer and merchant who traveled west and central asia from 1271 to 1295. Travels of marco polo, is a thcentury travelogue written down by rustichello da pisa from stories told by marco polo when they were imprisoned together in genoa. Reinhold rost, and from that time we met frequently and kept up a correspondence which terminated only with the life of the great geographer, whose friend i had become. How marco polo went to china marco polo was born in venice in the year 1254. The emperor heard all that the merchants had to tell him about their native land and christianity and very soon decided to send them back to the pope as his ambassadors, with messages of peace and a request for a. His travels inspired future explorers and introduced the silk road to europe through his book entitled il milione also known as the travels of marco polo.
A debate continues as to whether the venetians book is actually a personal account of chinas thcentury middle kingdom and its marvels. His father, nicolo, and his uncle, maffeo, were merchants who had seats in the great council and were enrolled with the noblemen of venice. They arrived in hormuz ready to sail to china but they. Scientists, western scholars and chinese historians have uncovered striking new evidence that the son of venetian merchants had travelled to the mysterious middle kingdom.
Come lo grande kane mando marco, figliuolo di messer nicolao, per suo messaggio. The khan at war, faksimile ub graz sig hb 15 210p 778. Il milione di marco polo nelledizione di giovanni battista ramusio, testo a cura di f. The marco polo bibliography published in 1986 contained over 2,300 items in european languages alone. Marco polo and the silk road janet hardygould introduction gregory x. He helped them to get holy oil from jerusalem, but there were problems getting the christian priests. The polos travelled through countries now known as turkey, armenia, georgia, iraq and iran. Marco also had another uncle who lived in constantinople and crimea and was engaged in commerce. This walkie talkie, though, has video capabilities.
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