the Genoese
_Liber Jurium_, forming a part of the _Monumenta Historiae Patriae_,
published at Turin. (See _Lib. Jur._ II. 344, seqq.) Muratori in his
Annals has followed John Villani (Bk. VIII. ch. 27) in representing
the terms as highly unfavourable to Venice. But for this there is no
foundation in the documents. And the terms are stated with substantial
accuracy in Navagiero. (_Murat. Script._ xxiii. 1011.)

[28] _Paulin Paris, Les Manuscrits Francois de la Bibliotheque du Roi_,
ii. 355.

[29] Though there is no precise information as to the birth or death of
this writer, who belonged to a noble family of Lombardy, the
Bellingeri, he can be traced with tolerable certainty as in life in
1289, 1320, and 1334. (See the Introduction to his Chronicle in the
Turin _Monumenta_, _Scriptores_ III.)

[30] There is another MS. of the _Imago Mundi_ at Turin, which has been
printed in the _Monumenta_. The passage about Polo in that copy
differs widely in wording, is much shorter, and contains no date. But
it relates his capture as having taken place at _La Glaza_, which I
think there can be no doubt is also intended for Ayas (sometimes
called _Giazza_), a place which in fact is called _Glaza_ in three of
the MSS. of which various readings are given in the edition of the
Societe de Geographie (p. 535).

[31] "E per meio esse aregordenti
De si grande scacho mato
Correa mille duxenti
Zonto ge novanta e quatro."

The Armenian Prince Hayton or Hethum has put it under 1293. (See
_Langlois, Mem. sur les Relations de Genes avec la Petite-Armenie_.)

VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT
GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS.

38. We have now to say something of that Rusticiano to whom all who value
Polo's book are so much indebted.

[Sidenote: Rusticiano, perhaps a prisoner from Meloria.]

The relations between Genoa and Pisa had long been so hostile that it was
only too natural in 1298 to find a Pisan in the gaol of Genoa. An unhappy
multitude of such prisoners had been carried thither fourteen years
before, and the survivors still lingered there in vastly dwindled numbers.
In the summer of 1284 was fought the battle from which Pisa had to date
the commencement of her long decay. In July of that year the Pisans, at a
time when the Genoese had no fleet in their own immediate wat