The Travels of Marco Polo · Character
Josafat Barbaro
Also known as Giosafat Barbaro
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 53
Josafat Barbaro is remembered through a traveler’s eye for the striking and unusual, his reports suggesting a man drawn to what others might overlook. The few details preserved leave him intriguing precisely because the observer himself remains indistinct.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 53
- Books
- 1
Josafat Barbaro is cited as a traveler who claimed to have seen sheep with exceptionally large tails. The surviving mention offers no fuller account of his life or relationships, so his place in this context is defined by that vivid report and the authority of firsthand travel.
Description
No physical description of Josafat Barbaro is provided. A historically plausible depiction may show him in Venetian travel clothing, with a watchful and composed bearing. His face, complexion, hair, eyes, height, build, and distinguishing features remain unknown.
Story so far
BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
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