essed at Rome, during the Jubilee of 1300, that put it into his head towrite the history of the rising glories of Florence, and that he began the work afterhis return home. (Bk. VIII. ch. 36.) § Book V. ch. 29. || Petri Aponensis Medici ac Philosophi Celeberrimi, Conciliator, Venice, 1521,fol. 97.… … 120 INTRODUCTION In the country of the ZiNGHi there is seen a star as big as a sack. I know a man who has seen it, and hetold me it had a faint light like a pieceof a cloud, and is always In the south.*I have been told of this and othermatters by Marco the Venetian, themost extensive traveller and…
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