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Venetian merchant and traveller · 1254–1324 · Exploration & Innovation
Spent twenty-four years travelling to and from China, then dictated the book that gave Europe its picture of Asia from a Genoese prison.
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Marco Polo left Venice at seventeen with his father and uncle, both merchants who had already made the journey east. They travelled by way of Persia and the Pamirs to the court of Kublai Khan, where Marco says he served in some official capacity for years, seeing paper money, coal, the postal relay system and cities far larger than any in Europe. The family returned by sea via Sumatra and India, reaching Venice in 1295. Captured in a war with Genoa, Marco dictated his account to a fellow prisoner, the romance writer Rustichello of Pisa. Contemporaries doubted much of it. Later travellers, including Columbus with his annotated copy, took it seriously.
You can put that to the Marco Polo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marco Polo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1254–1324, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marco Polo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marco Polo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1254–1324, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marco Polo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marco Polo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1254–1324, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marco Polo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marco Polo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1254–1324, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marco Polo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marco Polo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1254–1324, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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