Author: Gary Jennings
Cites
- Jacopo D'Acqui (1)
- IN: The Journeyer (1984) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When Marco Polo lay on his deathbed, his priest, his friends and relations clustered around him to plead that he at last renounce the countless lies he had related as his true adventures, so his soul would go uncleansed to Heaven. The old man raised up, roundly damned them all and declared, "I have not told the half of what I saw and did!"
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
- NULL (1)
- IN: Aztec (1980) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You tell me then that I must perish
like the flowers that I cherish.
Nothing remaining of my name,
nothing remembered of my fame?
But the gardens I planted still are young--
the songs I sang will still be sung!
FROM: Huéxotzin
Prince of Texcóco, (1484), Fictional, NULL