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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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-
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