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Il Novellino

Note 1 — VIII Of the gift of a king’s son to a king of Syria who had been driven from his throne

Edward Storer translation

In Alexandria, which is in the parts of Roumania—for there are twelve Alexandrias which Alexander founded in the March before he died1—in this Alexandria there are streets where the Saracens live, who make foods for sale, and the people seek out the street where the finest and most delicate foodstuffs are to be found, just as among us one goes in search of cloths.

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