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...Genoa and Parma tall capitals flaunted from placards...
...Marco was not an imaginative man. He was a shrewd merchant, businesslike. When he was imprisoned, fighting for Venice at Genoa in 1298, rather than waste time he employed an amanuensis and dictated a careful account of what his father (Nicolo) and uncle (Maffeo) and self had seen. He indited the script to "Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls and Knights," full knowing that the house of Polo would profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden...
Next day he was acclaimed at the vast Odero Naval Shipyard, helped inaugurate a Genoa-Palermo hydroplane service, inspected several regiments in commemoration of the eleventh anniversary of Italy's entry into the World...
While Il Duce triumphed at Genoa, King Vittorio Emanuele embarked at Civita Vecchia (port of Rome) upon the royal yacht Savoia for Sardinia. Escorting the Savoia steamed four dreadnoughts, three cruisers, 22 destroyers...
...What fact about Genoa did Mussolini triumphantly proclaim...