Volume 54, Number 12 · July 19, 2007
The Venetian Treasure Hunt
By William Dalrymple
Venice and the Islamic World,828–1797
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Stefano Carboni
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,March 27–July 8, 2007
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 375 pp., $75.00; $55.00 (paper)
In the autumn of 1271, Marco Polo set off from Venice on the long journey east to Kublai Khan's summer palace at Xanadu on the Mongolian steppe.
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