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0132 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 / Page 132 (Color Image)

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INTRODUCTION

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19. The Papal interregnum was the longest known, at

least since the dark ages. Those two years passed, and yet

The Piazzetta at Venice. (From the Bodleian MS. of Polo.)

the Cardinals at Viterbo had come to no agreement. The

Second   brothers were unwilling to let the Great Kaan think

Jhe ourney of them faithless, and perhaps they hankered after the

Brothers,   virgin field of speculation that they had discovered ;

accompanied   p   y

by Marco. so they started again for the East, taking young

Mark with them. At Acre they took counsel with an

eminent churchman, TED.&LDO (or Tebaldo) VISCONTI, Arch-