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John Steinbeck once observed, “People do not take journeys; it’s the journeys that take people.”  Marco Polo embodies “The Journey”—a life-altering path with an unknown destination, personifying initiative, courage, and encounter. In the year 1271, a young Marco Polo embarked on what would become a legendary expedition to China, joining his father...

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The greatest cultural legacy of Italy is its millennia-long history of intersections, contaminations, influences, mixtures, invasions, immigrations, emigrations, returns, travels, and contacts. From its role as an expansive power to becoming a coveted conquest target, the Italian peninsula has historically been a crucible where peoples, cultures, a...

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March 08 2024 18:00 (Local time). IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NY. Marco Polo (and Dante). Journeys of knowledge. Lecture and Book Presentation by Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo, Theoretical Physics – SISSA Trieste and Prof. Gaspare Polizzi, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno – Firenze. Sky and Earth. Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo offers histori...

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When we think of Venice, we think of water and its maritime might, but its most famous citizen went by land. It was in the year 1271 that the young Marco Polo set off for China to accompany his father on a commercial expedition. Plagued by bad weather, war and disease, the long journey east along the "Silk Road" took more than three years. However,...

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Marco Polo was born in 1254. By the time of his death in 1324, he was wealthier than any of his close relatives had ever been. The history behind Marco the Traveler, as he came to be known during his lifetime, is one of relative mystery. We know much about his travels through Asia from his timeless literary work, The Travels of Marco Polo, or Le Di...

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Our Annual Marco Polo Dinner will honor two treasured Lower East Side museums: The Museum of the Chinese in America on Centre Street, and the Italian American Museum on Mulberry Street. Both will be represented by their respective Presidents: Nancy Yao and Joseph Scelsa. Purchase Your Ticket Today! The awards dinner will take place on the evening o...

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My friend Joel Reese, our local history man at the Iredell County Library in Statesville, recently gave me a Christmas gift that I especially appreciated: “The Travels of Marco Polo,” translated by Henry Yule, and published by Sterling Publishing Company of New York in 2012. It is illustrated with many maps and color photographs of places mentioned...

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