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INTRODUCTION.

mondo.” This was afterwards printed from a manuscript in the Riccardi Library, at Florence, under the above title, with the false imprint “Lisboa e Lucca”, but at Florence in 1766.

It is also contained in the third volume of the work—

Della decima e delle altre gravezze imposte dal comune di Firenze, della moneta et della mercatura dei Fiorentini fino al secolo XVI. Opera di Gian Francesco Pagnini del Ventura. In Firenza, 1766, 4to, 4 vols.

Of this extract, for which the work deserves a notice here, the first chapter bears the title—“Avisamento del viaggio del Gattajo per lo cammino della Tana ad andare et tornare con mercatanzie”—which is translated in Forster’s “Gesch. d. Entd.” p. 187-189, with explanations.

Franz Balducci Pergoletti’s Reise-Route von Asof nach Peking.

With the corresponding text of the original. In Sprengel’s “Gesch. d. geog. Entd.” p. 257, etc. With many observations and explanations.

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Luchino Arigo. 1374.

The still unpublished narrative of an expedition of the Genoese Luchino Arigo, to the Don and Caspian in 1374, is to be found in a manuscript of the beginning of the fifteenth century, bearing the title, “Itinerarium Antonii Usus Maris,” preserved in the public library of Genoa.