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Polo, Marco; Italian traveller of Asia. 1254-1324. Works: Le Livre des Merveilles du Monde (Travels of Marco Polo), 1298/99. - Alaodin, the old man from the mountain, chooses three young men as assassins who are given an intoxicating elixir. Illumination, Paris, studio of the Boucicaut Master, c. 1412. Ms. fr. 2810, fol. 17 r. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.