Molmenti: _Venice, its Growth to the Fall of the Republic_, vols.
I and II (_The Middle Ages_), trans.

H.F.Brown (1906); and _La Vie Privee a Venise_, vol.I (1895).
H.F.

Brown: _Studies in the History of Venice_, vol.I (1907).
Mrs Oliphant: _The Makers of Venice_ (1905) is pleasant reading and contains a chapter on Marco Polo.
2.

For medieval China, the Tartars, and European intercourse with the far East see-- Sir Henry Yule's introduction to his great edition of Marco Polo (above).
_Cathay and the Way Thither: Medieval Notices of China_, trans.

and ed.