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Citation Information
CHAP. X. SECOND DEPARTURE FROM VENICE
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which corresponds to Ramusio's version. Most of the ecclesiastical chroniclers call him Tedaldits, some 77realdns. Tea'aldo is a real name, occurring in Boccaccio. (Day iii. Novel 7.)
NOTE 2.—After the expulsion of the Venetians from Constantinople, Negropont was the centre of their influence in Romania. On the final return of the travellers they again take Negropont on their way. [It was one of the ports on the route from Venice to Constantinople, Tana, Trebizond.—H. C.]
NOTE 3.—The edition of the Soc. de Géographie makes Mark's age twelve, but I have verified from inspection the fact noticed by Pauthier that the manuscript has distinctly xv. like all the other old texts. In Ramusio it is nineteen, but this is doubtless an arbitrary correction to suit the mistaken date (1250) assigned for the departure of the father from Constantinople.
There is nothing in the old French texts to justify the usual statement that Marco was born after the departure of his father from Venice. All that the G. T. says is : " Meser Nicolau treuve que sa fame estoit morte, et les remés un filz de xv. anz que avoit á nom Marc," and Pauthier's text is to the same effect. Ramusio, indeed, has : " M. Nicoló trovô, the sua moglie era morta, la quale nella sua partita haveva partorito un figliuolo," and the other versions that are based on Pipino's seem all to have like statements.
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CHAPTER X.
How THE Two BROTHERS AGAIN DEPARTED FROM VENICE, ON THEIR WAY BACK TO THE GREAT KAAN, AND TOOK WITH THEM MARK, THE SON OF MESSER NICOLAS.
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WHEN the Two Brothers had tarried as long as I have told
you, and saw that never a Pope was made, they said that
their return to the Great Kaan must be put off no longer.
So they set out from Venice, taking Mark along with
them, and went straight back to Acre, where they found
the Legate of whom we have spoken. They had a good
deal of discourse with him concerning the matter, and
asked his permission to go to JERUSALEM to get some Oil
from the Lamp on the Sepulchre, to carry with them to the
Great Kaan, as he had enjoined.' The Legate giving
them leave, they went from Acre to Jerusalem and got
some of the Oil, and then returned to Acre, and went to
the Legate and said to him : " As we see no sign of a
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