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From the beginning, there has been incredulity over Polo's sometimes fabulous stories, as well as a scholarly debate in recent times. [18] Latham believed that many elements of the book, such as legends of the Middle East and mentions of exotic marvels, may have been the work of Rustichello who was giving what medieval European readers expected to find in a travel book. The Book of Ser Marco Polo The Venetian, Travels of Marco Polo, George B Parks, ©1927 1st Ed., The Modern Readers' Series, The … His books have been translated into fifteen languages worldwide. 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Among Venice's rich merchant aristocracy everyone knew everyone else, and close acquaintance led to mutual trust of a kind that in other cities seldom extended far outside the family circle." Carnival became the occasion for orgies taking place just out of sight behind high courtyard walls and opaque curtains. [4] Rustichello wrote it in Franco-Venetian,[5][6][7] a cultural language widespread in northern Italy between the subalpine belt and the lower Po between the 13th and 15th centuries. Jerusalem was considered "the navel of the world." People like Marco brought knowledge and wealth back and forth and could be credited with a great part in the develpment of democracy. [55] Marco Polo himself noted (in the Toledo manuscript) the dainty walk of Chinese women who took very short steps. Crossing the English Channel was a dreaded undertaking; those who completed the ordeal would claim that the effort had impaired their health. As a further incentive to trade, taxation in Venice was among the lowest in Europe, and merchants kept nearly all the profit they made.Just about everyone in Venice engaged in commerce. [62] Economic historian Mark Elvin, in his preface to Vogel's 2013 monograph, concludes that Vogel "demonstrates by specific example after specific example the ultimately overwhelming probability of the broad authenticity" of Polo's account. The Travels of Marco Polo, dictated by him, described Chinese politics, economy, and culture in detail, which greatly aroused the desire of westerner to go to China and had a great effect on … [59][60] Vogel noted that no other Western, Arab, or Persian sources have given such accurate and unique details about the currencies of China, for example, the shape and size of the paper, the use of seals, the various denominations of paper money as well as variations in currency usage in different regions of China, such as the use of cowry shells in Yunnan, details supported by archaeological evidence and Chinese sources compiled long after Polo's had left China. Marco Polo is something of a hero of mine. In Western Europe, coal had yet to be exploited as an energy source; paper money and the printing press also lay two hundred years in the future. Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019. The diplomatic communications between Pope Innocent IV and Pope Gregory X with the Mongols[24] were probably another reason for this endorsement. [20], According to some recent research of the Italian scholar Antonio Montefusco, the very close relationship that Marco Polo cultivated with members of the Dominican Order in Venice suggests that local fathers collaborated with him for a Latin version of the book, which means that Rustichello's text was translated into Latin for a precise will of the Order. The Khan sent him on special missions, even making him governor of a province for a time. Some in the Middle Ages viewed the book simply as a romance or fable, largely because of the sharp difference of its descriptions of a sophisticated civilisation in China to other early accounts by Giovanni da Pian del Carpine and William of Rubruck who portrayed the Mongols as "barbarians" who appeared to belong to "some other world". His claim is confirmed by a Chinese text of the 14th century explaining how a Sogdian named Mar-Sargis from Samarkand founded six Nestorian Christian churches there in addition to one in Hangzhou during the second half of the 13th century. To extend their reach, Venetians formed partnerships with distant governments and merchants that cut across racial and religious divisions. Book Four describes some of the then-recent wars among the Mongols and some of the regions of the far north, like Russia. [51][52], Historian Stephen G. 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