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1307
Marco Polo dictates the Travels from a Genoese cell
1307
The Venetian merchant, captured at Curzola and sharing a cell with the romancer Rustichello da Pisa, narrated his improbable years at the court of Kublai Khan. Book of the Marvels of the World went into manuscript circulation. Europeans began to imagine Cathay as a place not of legend but of geography.
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