Porcelain styles, and there are several modern industrial manufacturers. These exported Chinese porcelains were held in such great esteem in Europe that in English "china" became a commonly–used synonym for the Italian term "porcelain". The first mention of porcelain in Europe is in "Il Milione" by Marco Polo in XII sec. Apart from copying Chinese porcelain in "faience" (tin glazed earthenware), the soft-paste Medici porcelain in 16th-century Florence was the first real European attempt to reproduce it, with little success. Early in the 16th century, Portuguese traders returned home with samples of kaolin, which they discovered in China to be essential
Pacte de Famille of the war. The agreement involved Spain's allies Naples and Tuscany. When Spain became involved, the British occupied the Philippines and Cuba. Charles III recovered these possessions in the Treaty of Paris (1763), but ceded Florida to the British. Pacte de Famille The Pacte de Famille (, "Family Compact"; ) is one of three separate, but similar alliances between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain. The first of these ("Primer Pacto de Familia") was made on November 7, 1733 by King Philip V of Spain and King Louis XV of France in the "Treaty of the Escorial". Philip V