The Travels of Marco Polo · Character
Friar Jacopo d'Acqui
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 15
Jacopo feels like a reader with too many fragments of other people’s stories gathered in his mind. His account is a curious tangle of names and distant matters, giving him the air of a restless, imperfect compiler.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 15
- Books
- 1
Friar Jacopo d’Acqui is described as making a curious hotch-potch of what he had read, drawing in the Tartars and Prester John. He also mentions Marco in connection with Marco’s capture by the Genoese. The source gives no further account of Jacopo’s life or of the circumstances behind his writings.
Description
Jacopo is identified as a male friar, but his age, religious order, build, coloring, and features are not described. No details are given about his hair, eyes, face, habit, or distinguishing marks. His appearance should therefore remain generic and historically restrained rather than assigned invented traits.
Story so far
BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
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