[146] Marco Polo (1254-1324) joined his father, Niccolo Polo, and his uncle, Maffeo Polo, at Acre, in 1269. They set out for China in 1271 and, after a protracted stay, left for home, in 1292, and reached Venice in 1295.--T. [147] _Vide_ Zanze's manuscript, _infra._--T. [148] Abbé Nicolas Lenglet-Dufresnoy (1674-1755), a man of very great learning but no critical taste. He was several times sent to the Bastille, under Louis XV., for the boldness of his writings, and died, at last, of an accident, having fallen into the fire before which he was reading. His chief works are _De l'usage des romans, avec une bibliothèque des romans_ (1734), his _Histoire justifiée contre les romans_ (1735), un _Histoire de la philosophie hermétique_ (1742) and a _Traité sur des apparitions_ (1751). His _Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc_ was published in 1753, two years before his death.--T. [149] A character in Bojardo's _Orlando Innamorato_ and Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_, and daughter of Galaphron King of Cathay (Catajo, not Marco Polo's Cathay, as the Abbé Lenglet seems to have thought).--T. [150] Francis IV. Duke of Modena (1799-1847) was the grandson of the Empress Maria Theresa and nephew of Marie-Antoinette. The Congress of Vienna, in 1815, reinstated him in his Duchy, of which his grandfather, Hercules III., had been dispossessed by the French in 1797. He married Mary Beatrice, daughter of King Victor Emanuel I. of Sardinia and Heiress in Line of the Stuarts, who is known to Legitimists as Mary III. Queen of England (_Cf._ Vol. IV., p. 251, n. 1). Francis IV. was almost the only European potentate who refused to recognise the sovereignty of Louis-Philippe. On the 14th of November 1846, his daughter, Maria Theresa, married the Comte de Chambord (King Henry V. of France).--T. [151] Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), author of the _Principe_ and other works of state-craft.--T. [152] _Cf._ BYRON: _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto IV., Stanzas XXX-XXXIV.--T. [153] Titus Livius (59 B.C.--17 A.C.), the historian, was born at Padua,--T. [154] Publius Virgilius Maro (70 B.C.--19 B.C.) was born at Urbino.--T. [155] Caius Valerius Catullus (_circa_ 87 B.C.--_circa_ 54 B.C.) was born at Verona.--T. [156] Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) was born at Reggio di Modena.--T. [157] Giovanni Battista Guarini (1 537-1612), the noted diplomatist and poet, author of the _Pastor fido_, was born at Ferrara.--T. [158] Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (1422-1501) and his son, Ercole Strozzi (1471-1508), the Latin poets, were both born at Ferrara.--T.