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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale., in Venice, Veneto, Italy more
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Marco tells of magnificent feasts made by the Great Kaan on his birthday and on New Year’s Day. He delights in stories of the chase within the domain of Cublay’s palace of Chandu (perhaps the Xanadu of Coleridge) the walls of which enclosed a sixteen-mile circuit, with fountains and rivers and lawns and beasts of every kind.” (p. 62)
The plate is taken from a chapter called “A Merchant of Venice.”