Tells the life story of Marco Polo, describing his boyhood in thirteenth-century Venice, his travels in Asia, his time in the court of Kublai Khan, and his legacy.
Mangus, a magician in Italy in 1491, is summoned along with his apprentice, to the castle of Duke Claudio where they are asked to determine whether the Duke's daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
Text and illustrations describe the lives and works of Italian painters, sculptors, and architects from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.