M.G. Tononi, Archipretre De Plaisance, Qui Prepare Une
Histoire Et Une Edition Des Ceuvres De Gregoire X., Me Fait
Remarquer que
les chroniqueurs ne placent le depart de Tedaldo pour la Terre-Sainte
qu'apres celui de S. Louis pour
Tunis (2 juillet 1270), et que, d'apres un
acte du Tresor des Chartes, Tedaldo etait encore a Paris le 28
decembre 1269. Il faudrait done probablement dater de 1271 le premier et
le deuxieme sejour des Polo a Acre, et les placer tous deux entre le 9
mai, epoque de l'arrivee en Terre-Sainte d'Edouard d'Angleterre, - avec
lequel, suivant l'Eracles, aborda Tedaldo - et le 18 novembre, date
du depart du nouveau pape pour l'Occident." (Cf. Hist. litt. de la
France, XXXV, Marco Polo.)
Introduction, p. 19 n.
I have here discussed Major Sykes' theory of Polo's itinerary in Persia;
the question was raised again by Major Sykes in the Geographical
Journal, October, 1905, pp. 462-465. I answered again, and I do not
think it necessary to carry on farther this controversy. I recall that
Major Sykes writes: "To conclude, I maintain that Marco Polo entered
Persia near Tabriz, whence he travelled to Sultania, Kashan, Yezd, Kerman,
and Hormuz. From that port, owing to the unseaworthiness of the vessels,
the presence of pirates, the fact that the season was past, or for some
other reason, he returned by a westerly route to Kerman, and thence
crossed the Lut to Khorasan."
I replied in the Geographical Journal, Dec., 1905, pp. 686-687:
"Baghdad, after its fall in 1258, did not cease immediately to be 'rather
off the main caravan route.' I shall not refer Major Sykes to what I say
in my editions of 'Odorico' and 'Polo' on the subject, but to the standard
work of Heyd, Commerce du Levant, Vol.
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