Merthin left Italy in company with a dozen merchants from Florence and Lucca. They took a ship from Genoa to the ancient French port of Marseilles. From there they travelled overland to Avignon, home of the pope for the last forty years or more, and the most lavish court in Europe -- as well as the smelliest city Merthin had ever known. There they joined a large group of clergymen and returning pilgrims heading north.

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