Rustichello da Pisa

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Rustichello da Pisa


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Pisa, Republic of Pisa

This 13th century Italian recorded the dictations of Marco Polo, the great traveler to the court of Kublai Khan, the Yuan emperor of China.

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“Yezd is still a place of important trade, and carries on a thriving commerce with India by Bandar Abbási. A visitor in the end of 1865 says: "The external trade appears to be very considerable, and the merchants of Yezd are reputed to be amongst the most enterprising and respectable of their class in Persia. Some of their agents have lately gone, not only to Bombay, but to the Mauritius, Java, and China.”
Rustichello Of Pisa, The Travels of Marco Polo: Volume 1

“and in the preparation of those ingredients along with which it is fused to obtain that kind of soft Iron which is usually styled Indian Steel (HINDIAH).[3] They also have workshops wherein are forged the most famous sabres in the world…. It is impossible to find anything to surpass the edge that you get from Indian Steel (al-hadíd al-Hindí).”
Rustichello Of Pisa, The Travels of Marco Polo: Volume 1

“Yezd, in pre-Mahomedan times, was a great sanctuary of the Gueber worship, though now it is a seat of fanatical Mahomedanism. It is, however, one of the few places where the old religion lingers. In 1859 there were reckoned 850 families of Guebers in Yezd”
Rustichello Of Pisa, The Travels of Marco Polo: Volume 1



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