![]() ![]() His was more the imprisonment of a gentleman kept for ransom, likely enjoying some freedom but not beyond the city walls. And we probably shouldn’t picture a barren cell rounded out by beatings and bad food here. What’s important is that he is a prisoner. ![]() One writer gives up on being exact and has him, quote, “taken prisoner at some obscure and otherwise unrecorded engagement of armed merchantmen in 1296.” Maybe they get him at the Battle of Laiazzo, but that seems too early, or maybe it’s Curzola, but that seems too late. The details are a little murky here, but somehow, somewhere, he’s taken prisoner by the Genoese. And maybe we shouldn’t call it home because he’d been away about 24 of those years, longer than he’d ever lived in Venice.Īnyways, he comes back, and pretty quickly he’s in trouble again. ![]() Marco Polo comes home in 1295, a man of 41 or 42 years. I’m going to start this story at the end. ![]()
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