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The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East; (1903)

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?, Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925, Yule, Amy Frances, Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · London, J. Murray · leaf 156

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-cern the Latin rudder on the quarter. (See this volume, p. 119.)In a picture in the Uffizj, at Florence, of about the same date, byPietro Laurato (it is in the corridor near the entrance), may beseen a small figure of a galley with the oars also very distinctlycoupled.f Casoni has engraved, after… … Part of a Sea Fight, after Dom. Tintoretto. picture by Domenico Tintoretto in the Doges palace, repre-senting, I believe, the same action (real or imaginary) asSpinellos fresco, but with the costume and construction ofa later date. It shows, however, very plainly, the projectingopera-morta, and the…

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