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c.1300 [c.1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as “Della città di Ciaglu [On the city of Chaglu]” (chapter 128), in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:
Ciaglu è una molto grande città de la provincia del Catai, ed è al Grande Kane; e’ sono idoli. La moneta ànno di carte, e fan ardere lor corpi morti.
[Ciaglu è una molto grande città de la provincia del Catai, ed è al Grande Kane; e' sono idoli. La moneta hanno di carte, e fan ardere lor corpi morti.]
Changlu is a very large city in the province of Cathay: under the Great Khan: they are idolaters; they use paper money, and burn their dead.
questa, se non sapete, Angelica era, del gran Can del Catai la figlia altiera
This, if you don't know, was Angelica, the haughty daughter of the Great Khan of Cathay.
1872–1880, Giovanni Pascoli, Astolfo, lines 29–32; republished in Maria Pascoli, compiler, Poesie varie di Giovanni Pascoli, Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1913, page 62:
Pispigliavan le rose: Oh! la regina del Catai si fa sposa. Angelica, gemeano i fiordispina, là, nel Catai, riposa
The roses whispered: "Oh, the queen of Cathay becomes a bride." "Angelica", moaned the hawthorne, "rests there, in Cathay."
