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Quotation from The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (with Rustichello da Pisa)
“Now, being thereafter an inmate of the Prison at Genoa, he caused Messer Rusticiano of Pisa, who was in the said Prison likewise, to reduce the whole to writing; and this befell in the year 1298 from the birth of Jesus.”
The Travels of Marco Polo, Prologue, opening address, trans. Yule–Cordier
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Citation: "Now, being thereafter an inmate of the Prison at Genoa, he caused Messer Rusticiano of Pisa, who was in the said Prison likewise, to reduce the whole to writing; and this befell in the year 1298 from the birth of Jesus." — Marco Polo (with Rustichello da Pisa), The Travels of Marco Polo, Prologue, opening address, trans. Yule–Cordier. (id the-travels-of-marco-polo-q2)
Portrait: Marco Polo Mosaic from Palazzo Tursi, Salviati, Public domain.
