国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
CHIAP. VII.
CUBLAY'S EMBASSY TO TIIE POPE
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CHAPTER VII.
How THE GREAT KAAN SENT THE Two BROTHERS AS HIS ENVOYS TO
THE POPE.
WHEN that Prince, whose name was CUBLAY KAAN, Lord
of the Tartars all over the earth, and of all the kingdoms
and provinces and territories of that vast quarter of the
world, had heard all that the Brothers had to tell him
about the ways of the Latins, he was greatly pleased,
and he took it into his head that he would send them
on an Embassy to the Pope. So he urgently desired
them to undertake this mission along with one of his
Barons ; and they replied that they would gladly exe-
cute all his commands as those of their Sovereign Lord.
Then the Prince sent to summon to his presence one of
his Barons whose name was COGATAL, and desired him
to get ready, for it was proposed to send him to the
Pope along with the Two Brothers. The Baron replied
that he would execute the Lord's commands to the best
of his ability.
After this the Prince caused letters from himself to the
Pope to be indited in the Tartar tongue,' and committed
them to the Two Brothers and to that Baron of his own,
and charged them with what he wished them to say to
the Pope. Now the contents of the letter were to this
purport : He begged that the Pope would send as many as
an hundred persons of our Christian faith ; intelligent men,
acquainted with the Seven Arts,' well qualified to enter
into controversy, and able clearly to prove by force of
argument to idolaters and other kinds of folk, that the
Law of Christ was best, and that all other religions were
false and naught ; and that if they would prove this, he
and all under him would become Christians and the
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