Word: maffeo
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Marco was not an imaginative man. He was a shrewd merchant, businesslike. When he was imprisoned, fighting for Venice at Genoa in 1298, rather than waste time he employed an amanuensis and dictated a careful account of what his father (Nicolo) and uncle (Maffeo) and self had seen. He indited the script to "Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls and Knights," full knowing that the house of Polo would profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden...