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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO PROL.
Duomo at Arezzo, a Handsome work by Margaritoile, an artist in all branches, who was the Pope's contemporary. There is an engraving of it in Gonnelli, Mon. Sepolc.
di Toscana.
(Fra Pzpino in Muratori, IX. 700 ; Rainaldi Annal. III. 252 sell. ; Wadding, sub. an. 1217 : Bollandists, loth January ; Palatii, Gesta Poncif. Roman. vol. iii., and Fasti Cardinalium, I. 463, etc.)
CHAPTER XII.
How THE TWO BROTHERS PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE
NEW POPE.
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AND when they had been thus honourably conducted to
Acre they proceeded to the presence of the Pope, and
paid their respects to him with humble reverence. He
received them with great honour and satisfaction, and
gave them his blessing. He then appointed two Friars of
the Order of Preachers to accompany them to the Great
Kaan, and to do whatever might be required of them.
These were unquestionably as learned Churchmen as were
to be found in the Province at that day one being called
Friar Nicolas of Vicenza, and the other Friar William of
Tripoli.1 He delivered to them also proper credentials,
and letters in reply to the Great Kaan's messages [and
gave them authority to ordain priests and bishops, and to
bestow every kind of absolution, as if given by himself
in proper person ; sending by them also many fine vessels
of crystal as presents to the Great Kaan].2 So when
they had got all that was needful, they took leave of the
Pope, receiving his benediction ; and the four set out
together from Acre, and went to Layas, accompanied
always by Messer Nicolas's son Marco.
Now, about the time that they reached Layas, Ben-
docquedar, the Soldan of Babylon, invaded Hermenia
with a great host of Saracens, and ravaged the country,
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