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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO PROL
the Pope is dead ; wherefore ye must needs have patience
until a new Pope be made, and then shall ye be able to
execute your charge.” Seeing well enough that what the
Legate said was just, they observed : " But while the
Pope is a-making, we may as well go to Venice and visit
our households." So they departed from Acre and went
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to Negropont, and from Negropont they continued their
voyage to Venice.' On their arrival there, Messer
Nicolas found that his wife was dead, and that she
had left behind her a son of fifteen years of age, whose
name was MAI:co ; and 'tis of him that this Book tells.3
The Two Brothers abode at Venice a couple of years,
tarrying until a Pope should be made.
NOTE I.—The deceased Pope's name: is omitted both in the Geog. Text and in Pauthier's, clearly because neither Rusticiano nor Polo remembered it. It is supplied correctly in the Crusca Italian as Clement, and in Ramusio as Clement IV.
It is not clear that Theobald, though generally adopted, is the ecclesiastic's proper name. It appears in different MSS. as Teald (G. T.), Ceabo for T'abo (Pauthier), Odoaldo (Crusca), and in the Riccardian as Thebaldits de Vice-comilibus de Placentia,
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