'Ouch Genoese, men unwilling
To kindness, and full of every flaw,
Why aren't you rooted out of the world? '
Dante

Venice,1254. Marco Polo was born.
He was mother orphan, with his father and brother always in journey.
He had to identify himself and to become traveller at court of the Khan.
He visited the liberal China of his early years,
Attended to the missed business between the Khan and the Pope,
After 1368 all the Khans disappeared
But China would remain the workroom of the world.
In South China, in 1336 a town paid the fees to the maritime republic of Genoa,
Marco had paid his attention to all the world.

Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

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