history_docu_photo/Alamy Marco Polo, the famed Venetian merchant ... Not only is the original version of his book lost forever but Polo's family palazzo was burnt in a fire in the 16th Century.

In the 13th century, the Venetian merchant Marco Polo followed the Silk ... Still, food history scholar Massimo Montanari asserts in his book, "A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce ...

9. Marco Polo believed in sorcery and evil spirits. Throughout his book, Polo describes encounters with magicians and sorcerers. At the court of Kublai Khan, Polo met astrologers who (allegedly ...

In 2011, Rong Xinjiang, a history professor at Peking University and a leading ... their work has already resulted in multiple books on Marco Polo, the Silk Road, and medieval trading hubs like the ...

The plan is excellent, and well carried out. Selected extracts from Yule's “Book of Ser Marco Polo” are accompanied and woven together by a pleasantly written commentary, which seems to have ...

Denis Belliveau Polo described local animals now known even among Afghans as Marco Polo sheep "whose horns are [a] good six palms in length." Denis Belliveau Belliveau and O'Donnell found the ...

Subscribe for ads-free reading This year marks the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo and his adventures in ... The Khan had our books brought to him, the Bible and the breviary, and he asked ...