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Thus it was that the great Khan was prevailed upon, very reluctantly, to let them go. One version of Marco's book says that they took with them also the daughter of the king of Mansi, one of those Sung princesses who in happier days had wandered beside the lake in Hangchow, and who had no doubt been brought up at Cambaluc by the care of Kublai Khan's favourite queen, the Lady Jamui.
Dearest brother, see that your affection, and that of yours, to us, or rather to the Apostolic See, fail not, for they who are fixed into the Rock with the Rock shall be exalted." Tillemont, xvi. 68. Simplicii, Ep. viii.; Photius, i. 115. Pope Gelasius, 13th letter. Mansi, vii. 1032-6; Jaffé, 359. Mansi, vii. 1028; Jaffé, 360. Photius, i. 123, translated.
Wide vineyards and fences of Indian corn lay between, across which the Conte Nobili conducted us to his house, where we found prepared a very comfortable dinner. We drank the growth of the spot, and defied Constantia and the Cape to excel it. Afterwards, retiring into a wood of the Marchese Mansi, with neat pebble walks and trickling rivulets, we sipped coffee and loitered till sunset.
Can any appeal be more touching than that which they made, and made in vain, to the "Christian king and Roman prince"? Out of all these things, whose natural consequences tended to extinguish their principate, came forth the most magnificent attestation to it which is to be found in the first five hundred years of the Christian religion. Mansi, viii. 193.
Rescriptum episcoporum Dardaniæ ad Gelasium Papam. Ep. iv. ad Faustum; Mansi, viii. 17. Ep. xiii. Valde mirati sumus; Mansi, viii. 49. Mansi, viii. 30-5. Ne arrogantiam judices divinæ rationis officium. Quem cunctis sacerdotibus et Divinitas summa voluit præeminere, et subsequens Ecclesiæ generalis jugiter pietas celebravit. Photius, 134; Hefele, C.G., ii. 597.
In the Novellino of Masuccio, which was first printed in 1476, there is a passage in the tenth novel of the first part, in which a rogue passes as "grandissimo cognoscitore" of gems because he had spent much time in Scotland. De Varietate, p. 636. De Varietate, p. 637. Ibid., p. 637. Ibid., p. 565. "Peracto L anno quod stipendium non remuneraretur mansi Mediolani." De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 15.
See Riffel, p. 624. Riffel, p. 625. Ibid., pp. 629-35. See St. Riffel, p. 635. Mansi, xii. 1130. Riffel, 562. Photius, p. 155. Photius, 173. "The banner of the Church is ever flying! Less than a storm avails not to unfold The Cross emblazoned there in massive gold: Away with doubts and sadness, tears and sighing! It is by faith, by patience, and by dying That we must conquer, as our sires of old."
This letter, brimful of anecdote, is printed in Croker's Correspondence, vol. ii. pp. 28-34. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. February 1. Domum mansi, lanam feci, stayed at home videlicet, and laboured without interruption except from intolerable drowsiness; finished eight leaves, however, the best day's work I have made this long time.
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