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Reading “The travels of Marco Polo” makes me feel illiterate. Anyone get this sensation when reading a classic?

I’m reading the penguin house translation of “the travels of Marco Polo” and I’m about 50 pages in. I feel so lost. I have a bachelors in geography and have read several history books / historic dramatizations and nothing has me re-reading passages as frequently. I’m not sure if it’s the translation (from original Italian) […]