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Citation Information
tXXXiV SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
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DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO
FAMILY AT S. GIOVANNI GRISOSTOMO . . . . 26
§ 23. Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni Grisostorno. 24. Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte Sabbionera. 24a. Recent corroboration as to traditional site of the Casa Polo.
DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDI-
TERRANEAN STATES IN THE MIDDLE AGES .
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§ 25. Arrangement of the Rowers in Medieval Galleys ; a separate Oar to every Man. 26. Change of System in 16th Century. 27. Some details of 13th-Century Galleys. 28. Fighting Arrangements. 29. Crew of a Galley and Staff of a Fleet. 3o. Music and miscellaneous particulars.
VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMBA DORIA'S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC ; BATTLE OF CURZOLA ; AND IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO
POLO BY THE GENOESE . .
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§ 31. Growing Jealousies and Outbreaks between the Republics. 32. Battle in Bay of Ayas in 1294. 33. Lamba Doria's Expedition to the Adriatic. 34. The Fleets come in sight of each other at Curzola. 35. The Venetians defeated, and Marco Polo a
Prisoner. 36. Marco Polo in Prison dictates his Book to
Rusticiano of Pisa. Release of Venetian Prisoners. 37. Grounds on which the story of Marco Polo's capture at Curzola rests.
RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE
DOWN THE TRAVELS . SS
§ 38. Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39. A Person known from other sources. 4o. Character of his Romance Compilations. 41. Identity of the Romance Compiler with Polo's Fellow-Prisoner. 42. Further particulars regarding Rusticiano.
NOTICES OF MARCO POLO'S HISTORY AFTER THE TERMINA-
TION OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AT GENOA . . 64
§ 43. Death of Marco's Father before 130o. Will of his Brother 1\- affeo. 44. Documentary Notices of Polo at this time. The Sobriquet of Milione. 45. Polo's relations with Thibault de Cepoy. 46. His Marriage; and his Daughters. Marco as a Merchant. 47. His Last Will ; and Death. 48. Place of Sepulture. Professed Portraits of Polo. 49. Further History of the Polo Family. 49 bis. Reliques of Marco Polo.
I X. MARCO POLO'S BOOK ; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT
WAS FIRST WRITTEN . . . 8o
§ 5o. General Statement of what the Book contains. 51. Language of the original Work. 52. Old French Text of the Société de Géographie. 53. Conclusive proof that the Old French Text is the source of all the others. 54. Greatly diffused employment of
French in that age.
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