Marco Polo
1323 - Venice
In Venice, as his body thins, the traveller who connected East and West sets down what he saw that no one in Europe was prepared to believe.
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Kingship, faith, succession, and the durability of personal rule.
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1323 - Venice
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In Venice, as his body thins, the traveller who connected East and West sets down what he saw that no one in Europe was prepared to believe.
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1323 - Venice
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