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Marco Polo
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“Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.”
Marco Polo (1254–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his death-bed, when urged to retract "some of the seemingly incredible statements he made in his book", as quoted in The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (London: J. M. Dent, 1926), p. xxiv. Quote in Italian from …
Also quoted by: 马可·波罗 (zh)
“I must tell you that in all this province of Maabar there is no master tailor or dressmaker to cut or stitch cloth, because the people go stark naked all the year round. . . . The king wears no more than the others, apart from certain ornaments of which I will tell you. . . . Suffice it that he wears in all so many gems and pearls that their price exceeds that of a fine city.”
Marco Polo (1254–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 7 (tr. Ronald Latham, 1958)
“Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.”
Marco Polo (1254–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), Ch. 9
“When Marco Polo traveled to the East and reported what he had seen, mixing truth with falsehood but in any event telling something of the truth, the men of the West refused to believe him. In the late Medieval Ages his account of his travels was viewed as a book of fables... It was as if occidentals were unable to believe in the reality of the marvels of the Orient.”
Marco Polo (1254–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacques Le Goff, quoted in John M. Hobson, The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (New York: Bridge University Press, 2004)
“When other men ask them [the Yogis] why they go naked and are not ashamed to show their members, they reply: "We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came into the world naked and unclothed. As for not being ashamed to show our members, the fact is that we do no sin with them and therefore have no more shame in them than you have when you show your hand or face or the other parts of your body that do not lead you into carnal sin; whereas you use your members to commit sin and lechery, and so you cover them up and are ashamed of them. But we are no more ashamed of showing them than we are of showing our fingers, because we do not sin with them.”
Marco Polo (1254–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 7 (tr. Nigel Cliff, 2015)