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About|the trader and explorerUse mdy dates|date=October 2011Good articlepp-semi-indefpp-move-indefInfobox person|name = Marco Polo|image = Marco_Polo_portrait.jpg|caption = Portrait of Marco PoloThe exact source is unknown, but the portrait originated from a 16th century painting in the Gallery of Monsignor Badia in Rome. Inscription: Marcus Polus venetus totius orbis et Indie peregrator primus . It appears in the Nordisk familjebok Harvnb|Berg|1915|p=1261|birth_date = c . 1254|birth_place = presumably in Venice , Italy|death_date = Death date and age|mf=yes|1324|1|9|1254|9|15|death_place = Venice, Republic of Venice|Venetian Republic |body_discovered =|death_cause =|resting_place = San Lorenzo, Venice|Church of San Lorenzo |resting_place_coordinates = Coord|45.2613|12.2043|display=inline|residence =|nationality =|known_for = The Travels of Marco Polo |occupation = Merchant, Explorer|religion =|spouse = Donata Badoer|children = Fantina, Bellela, and Moretta|parents = Mother: Unknown Father: Niccolò Polo Marco Polo (IPAc-en|icon|audio=en-us-marco polo.ogg|'|m|?r|k|o?|_|'|p|o?|l|o?; IPA-it|'marko 'p??lo; c . 1254 – January 9, 1324) was a Venetian merchant travelercite book|title= Tait's Edinburgh magazine , Volume 10 |last= William Tait (publisher)|William Tait , Christian Isobel Johnstone |year=1843 |place=Edinburghcite book|title=Venice and Its Merchant Empire|first= Kathryn|last= Hinds|year=2002 |place=New York from the Republic of Venice|Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo|Il Milione , a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo|Niccolò and Maffeo , travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan . In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Republic of Genoa|Genoa ; Marco was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate. He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant , married and had three children. He died in 1324, and was buried in San Lorenzo, Venice|San Lorenzo .
Their pioneering journey inspired Christopher Columbus Harvnb|Landström|1967|p=27 and others. Marco Polo's other legacies include Venice Marco Polo Airport , the Marco Polo sheep , and several books and films. He also had an influence on European cartography, leading to the introduction of the Fra Mauro map .
Life
Early life and Asian travel
See also|Niccolò and Maffeo PoloThe exact time and place of Marco Polo's birth are unknown, and current theories are mostly conjectural. One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo , which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.Harvnb|Bergreen|2007|p=25 Some biographers suggest that Polo was born in the town of Korcula (Curzola), on the island of Korcula in today's Croatia , however there is no proof to this claim.Burgan 2002, p. 7Brook 2010, p. 24 The most quoted specific date of Polo's birth is somewhere "around 1254".Many sources state this date; Harvnb|Britannica|2002|p=571 states, "born in or around 1254. (This date, like nearly all the others concerning major events in his life, is conjectural.)" His father Niccolò was a merchant who traded with the Middle East, becoming wealthy and achieving great prestige.Harvnb|Parker|2004|pp=648–649 Niccolò and his brother Maffeo set off on a trading voyage, before Marco was born. In 1260, Niccolò and Maffeo were residing in Constantinople when they foresaw a political change; they liquidated their assets into jewels and moved away.Harvnb|Britannica|2002|p=571 According to The Travels of Marco Polo , they passed through much of Asia, and met with the Kublai Khan .Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch.1–9 Meanwhile, Marco Polo's mother died, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle. Polo was well educated, and learned merchant subjects including foreign currency, appraising, and the handling of cargo ships, although he learned little or no Latin .
In 1269, Niccolò and Maffeo returned to Venice, meeting Marco for the first time. In 1271, Marco Polo (at seventeen years of age), his father, and his uncle set off for Asia on the series of adventures that were later documented in Marco's book. They returned to Venice in 1295, 24 years later, with many riches and treasures. They had traveled almost convert|15000|mi|km|-3.
Genoese captivity and later life
See also|Battle of CurzolaUpon the Polos' return to Italy, Venice was at war with Genoa .Nicol 1992, p. 219 Genoese admiral Lamba Doria|Lamba D'Oria overwhelmed a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Curzola near the island of Korcula , and Polo was taken prisoner. He spent several months of his imprisonment dictating a detailed account of his travels to a fellow inmate, Rustichello da Pisa , who incorporated tales of his own as well as other collected anecdotes and current affairs from China. The book soon spread throughout Europe in manuscript form, and became known as The Travels of Marco Polo . It depicts the Polos' journeys throughout Asia, giving Europeans their first comprehensive look into the inner workings of the Far East, including China, India, and Japan.Harvnb|Bram|1983
While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopstick s, and footbinding , making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.Citation |author=John Grant| title= Corrupted Science| publisher=Facts, Figures & Fun, 2007 |isbn=978-1-904332-73-2| page=21 Yet, if the purpose of Polo's tales was to impress others with tales of his high esteem and fond regard in an advanced civilization, then the shrewd thing for Polo to do would be to omit those details that would cause his listeners to scoff at the Chinese with a sense of European superiority. Furthermore, researchers note that the Great Wall familiar to us today is a Ming Dynasty|Ming structure, post-dating Marco Polo's travels by more than two centuries. The Yuan Dynasty|Yuan rulers whom Polo served, as well as the preceding Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)|Jin and Liao Dynasty|Liao Empires controlled territories both north and south of the today's wall, and would have no reasons to maintain any fortifications that may have remained there from the earlier dynasties.citation |first=Stephen G. |last=Haw |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2006|isbn=0-415-34850-1 |title=Marco Polo's China: a Venetian in the realm of Khubilai Khan |series=Volume 3 of Routledge studies in the early history of Asia |url= http://books.google.com/books? id=CdE6Q_2yICIC& pg=PA52 |pages=52–57 Other Europeans who traveled to Khanbaliq during the Yuan Dynasty, such as Giovanni de' Marignolli and Odoric of Pordenone , said nothing about the wall either. Finally, the hearsay theory does not explain the absence of chop stick or foot binding reports. University of Tübingen researcher Hans Ulrich Vogel stated that Polo's description of paper money and salt production supported his presence in China.cite news | url = http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx? ItemId=119306& CultureCode=en | title = Marco Polo was not a swindler – he really did go to China | work = University of Tübingen | publisher = Alpha Galileo | date = 16 April 2012
Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299, and returned home to Venice, where his father and uncle had purchased a large house in the central quarter named contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo . The company continued its activities and Marco soon became a wealthy merchant. Polo financed other expeditions, but never left Venice again. In 1300, he married Donata Badoer, the daughter of Vitale Badoer, a merchant.Harvnb|Bergreen|2007|p=532 They had three daughters, called Fantina, Bellela and Moreta.Harvnb|Power|2007|p=87
Death
In 1323, Polo was confined to bed, due to illness. On January 8, 1324, despite physicians' efforts to treat him, Polo was on his deathbed. To write and certify the will, his family requested Giovanni Giustiniani, a priest of San Procolo. His wife, Donata, and his three daughters were appointed by him as Executor|co-executrices . The church was entitled by law to a portion of his estate; he approved of this and ordered that a further sum be paid to the convent of San Lorenzo, Venice|San Lorenzo , the place where he wished to be buried.Harvnb|Bergreen|2007|pp=339–342 He also set free a " Tatars|Tartar slave " who may have accompanied him from Asia.Harvnb|Britannica|2002|p=573
He divided up the rest of his assets, including several properties, between individuals, religious institutions, and every guild and fraternity to which he belonged. He also wrote-off multiple debts including 300& nbsp;lire that his sister-in-law owed him, and others for the convent of San Giovanni, San Paolo of the Order of Preachers, and a cleric named Friar Benvenuto. He ordered 220& nbsp; Solidus (coin)|soldi be paid to Giovanni Giustiniani for his work as a notary and his prayers. The will, which was not signed by Polo, but was validated by then relevant "signum manus" rule, by which the testator only had to touch the document to make it abide to the rule of law,Biblioteca Marciana, the institute that holds Polo's original copy of his testament. http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/admin/filemanager/file/UserFiles/File/testamento-polo.txt Venezia.sbn.it was dated January 9, 1324. Due to the Venetian law stating that the day ends at sunset, the exact date of Marco Polo's death cannot be determined, but it was between the sunsets of January 8 and 9, 1324.
Travels of Marco Polo
Further|The Travels of Marco PoloAn authoritative version of Marco Polo's book does not exist, and the early manuscripts differ significantly. The published versions of his book either rely on single scripts, blend multiple versions together or add notes to clarify, for example in the English translation by Henry Yule . Another English translation by A.C. Moule and Paul Pelliot , published in 1938, is based on the Latin manuscript which was found in the library of the Cathedral of Toledo in 1932, and is 50% longer than other versions.Harvnb|Bergreen|2007|pp=367–368 Approximately 150 variants in various languages are known to exist, and without the availability of a printing press many errors were made during copying and translation, resulting in many discrepancies.Harvnb|Edwards|p=1 Polo related his memoirs to Rustichello da Pisa while both were prisoners of the Genova Republic . Rustichello wrote Il Milione|The Devisament du Monde in Langues d'Oil , a lingua franca of crusaders and western merchants in the orient.^ Marco Polo, Il Milione, Adelphi 2001, ISBN 88-459-1032-6, Prefazione di Bertolucci Pizzorusso Valeria, pp. X-XXI. The idea probably was to create a Pratica della mercatura|handbook for merchants , essentially a text on weights, measures and distances.^ Larner John, Marco Polo and the discovery of the world, Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07971-0 pp. 68–87.
Narrative
The book starts with a preface about his father and uncle traveling to Bolghar where Prince Berke|Berke Khan lived. A year later, they went to Ukek Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch. 2 and continued to Bukhara . There, an envoy from Levant invited them to meet Kublai Khan , who had never met Europeans.Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch. 3 In 1266, they reached the seat of the Kublai Khan at Khanbaliq|Dadu , present day Beijing, China. Khan received the brothers with hospitality and asked them many questions regarding the European legal and political system.Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch. 5 He also inquired about the Pope and Church in Rome.Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch. 6 After the brothers answered the questions he tasked them with delivering a letter to the Pope, requesting 100 Christians acquainted with the Liberal arts|Seven Arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy). Kublai Khan requested that an envoy bring him back Chrism|oil of the lamp in Jerusalem .Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch. 7 The long sede vacante between the death of Pope Clement IV in 1268 and the election of his successor delayed the Polos in fulfilling Khan's request. They followed the suggestion of Theobald Visconti, then papal legate for the realm of Egypt , and returned to Venice in 1269 or 1270 to await the nomination of the new Pope, which allowed Marco to see his father for the first time, at the age of fifteen or sixteen.Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch. 9 In 1271, Niccolò, Maffeo and Marco Polo embarked on their voyage to fulfill Khan's request. They sailed to Acre, Israel|Acre , and then rode on camels to the Persian port of Hormozgan Province|Hormuz . They wanted to sail to China, but the ships there were not seaworthy, so they continued overland until reaching Khan's summer palace in Xanadu|Shangdu , near present-day Zhangjiakou . Three and a half years after leaving Venice, when Marco was about 21 years old, Khan welcomed the Polos into his palace. The exact date of their arrival is unknown, but scholars estimate it to be between 1271 and 1275. Drogön Chögyal Phagpa , a Tibet an monk and confidant of Kublai Khan, mentions in his diaries that in 1271 a foreign friend of Kublai Khan visits& nbsp;— quite possibly one of the elder Polos or even Marco Polo himself, although, no name was given. If this is not the case, a more likely date for their arrival is 1275 (or 1274, according to the research of Japanese scholar Matsuo Otagi).(Harvnb|Britannica|2002|p=571) On reaching the Yuan court, the Polos presented the sacred oil from Jerusalem and the papal letters to their patron.
Marco knew four languages, and the family had accumulated a great deal of knowledge and experience that was useful to Khan. It is possible that he became a government official; he wrote about many imperial visits to China's southern and eastern provinces, the far south and Burma .citation|url= http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/pdf/Polo.pdf|title=The Travels pf Marco Polo, The Venetian (1298)|format=PDF|accessdate=2009-07-14|author=W. Marsden|editor=Thomas Wright|year=2004
Kublai Khan declined the Polos' requests to leave China. They became worried about returning home safely, believing that if Khan died, his enemies might turn against them because of their close involvement with the ruler. In 1292, Khan's great-nephew, then ruler of Iran|Persia , sent representatives to China in search of a potential wife, and they asked the Polos to accompany them, so they were permitted to return to Persia with the wedding party – which left that same year from Quanzhou|Zaitun in southern China on a fleet of 14 Junk (ship)|junks . The party sailed to the port of Singapore , travelled north to Sumatra , sailed west to the Trincomalee port of Jaffna kingdom|Jaffna under Savakanmaindan and to Pandyan kingdom|Pandyan of Tamilakkam . Describing the Pandyan kingdom under Lord Emperor Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan I as the richest empire in existence, Polo arrived during the reign of Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I , son of Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan I and one of five brother kings on the continent.cite book|title=South India and her Muhammadan Invaders|last=Aiyangar|first=Sakkottai Krishnaswami|authorlink=S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1921 Eventually Polo crossed the Arabian Sea to Ormus|Hormuz . The two-years voyage was a perilous one – of the six hundred people (not including the crew) in the convoy only eighteen had survived (including all three Polos).Boyle, J. A. (1971). Marco Polo and his Description of the World. History Today . Vol. 21, No. 11. http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx? m=33372& amid=30283909 Historyoftoday.com The Polos left the wedding party after reaching Hormuz and travelled overland to the port of Trebizond on the Black Sea , the present day Trabzon .
Legacy
Further exploration
See also|Age of Discovery|Europeans in Medieval China|Rafael PerestrelloOther lesser-known European explorers had already travelled to China, such as Giovanni da Pian del Carpine , but Polo's book meant that their journey was the first to be widely known. Christopher Columbus was inspired enough by Polo's description of the Far East to visit those lands for himself; a copy of the book was among his belongings, with handwritten annotations. Bento de Góis , inspired by Polo's writings of a Christian kingdom in the east, travelled convert|4000|mi|km in three years across Central Asia. He never found the kingdom, but ended his travels at the Great Wall of China in 1605, proving that Cathay was what Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) called "China".Harvnb|Winchester|2008|p=264
Commemoration
The Marco Polo sheep , a subspecies of Domestic sheep|Ovis aries , is named after the explorer,Harvnb|Bergreen|2007|p=74 who described it during his crossing of Pamir Mountains|Pamir (ancient Mount Imeon ) in 1271.Harvnb|Yule|Cordier|1923|loc=ch.18 states, "Then there are sheep here as big as asses; and their tails are so large and fat, that one tail shall weigh some 30& nbsp;lb. They are fine fat beasts, and afford capital mutton." In 1851, a three-masted Clipper built in Saint John, New Brunswick also took his name; Marco Polo (ship)| the Marco Polo was the first ship to sail around the world in under six months.Harvnb|Lubbock|2008|p=86 The airport in Venice is named Venice Marco Polo Airport ,citation|last = Brennan|first=D.|title = Lost in Venice |publisher=WalesOnline |date =2009-02-01 |month = February |url = http://www.walesonline.co.uk/travel/travel-news/2009/02/01/lost-in-venice-91466-22826493/|accessdate =2009-07-15Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot and the Frequent-flyer program|frequent flyer program of Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific is known as the "Marco Polo Club".Citation|url= http://www.cathayforbusiness.com/freqfly/marcopoloclub.asp|title=The Marco Polo Club|publisher= Cathay Pacific|Cathay Pacific Airways Limited |author=Cathay Pacific Airways|accessdate=2009-07-13|year=2009 The travels of Marco Polo are fictionalised in Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 's Messer Marco Polo and Gary Jennings ' 1984 novel The Journeyer . Polo also appears as the pivotal character in Italo Calvino 's novel Invisible Cities . The 1982 television miniseries, Marco Polo (TV miniseries)|Marco Polo , directed by Giuliano Montaldo and depicting Polo's travels, won two Emmy Award s and was nominated for six more.Citation | title = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | url = http://www.emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php | accessdate =2009-07-06 (Searching for "Marco Polo", and year 1982) Marco Polo also appears as a Great Explorer in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution . http://www.civfanatics.com/civrev/great_people Civilization Revolution: Great People "CivFanatics" Retrieved on 2009-09-04
Cartography
Marco Polo's travels may have had some influence on the development of European cartography, ultimately leading to the Age of Discovery|European voyages of exploration a century later.Harvnb|Falchetta|2006|p=592 The 1453 Fra Mauro map was said by Giovanni Battista Ramusio to have been partially based on the one brought from Cathay by Marco Polo: Quote|That fine illuminated world map on parchment , which can still be seen in a large cabinet alongside the choir of their monastery (the Camaldolese monastery of San Michele di Murano) was by one of the brothers of the monastery, who took great delight in the study of cosmography , diligently drawn and copied from a most beautiful and very old Nautical chart|nautical map and a world map that had been brought from Cathay by the most honourable Messer Marco Polo and his father.| Giovanni Battista Ramusio
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Further reading
cite book|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=VovVAAAAMAAJ& printsec=frontcover& source=gbs_ge_summary_r& cad=0#v=onepage& q& f=false|title=The Travels of Marco Polo|author=Marco Polo|editor=William Marsden|year=1918|publisher=J.M. Dent & Sons|edition=|location=LONDON|isbn=|page=461|accessdate=2011-05-29(Original from the University of Wisconsin – Madison)
citation|last=Daftary|first=Farhad|title=The Assassin legends: myths of the Isma?ilis|edition=2|publisher= I.B. Tauris |year=1994|page=213|isbn=978-1-85043-705-5|ref=CITEREFDaftary1994
Citation|last=Otfinoski|first=Steven|author=Steven Otfinoski|title=Marco Polo: to China and back|year=2003|publisher=Benchmark Books|location=New York|isbn=0-7614-1480-0|ref=CITEREFOtfinoski2003
The Travels of Marco Polo – Volume 1cite web|url= http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10636 |title=The Travels of Marco Polo – Volume 1 by Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa – Project Gutenberg |publisher=Gutenberg.org |date=2004-01-01 |accessdate=2011-04-02 and Volume 2,cite web|url= http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12410 |title=The Travels of Marco Polo – Volume 2 by Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa – Project Gutenberg |publisher=Gutenberg.org |date=2004-05-01 |accessdate=2011-04-02 written by Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa, were published by Project Gutenberg
citation|title=Daughter of Xanadu|last=Yang|first=Dori Jones|authorlink=Dori Jones Yang|publisher=Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers|date=2011-01-11|isbn=978-0-385-73923-8 (Young Adult novel)
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2009 Public Broadcasting Service|PBS documentary about two friends (Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell), who conceived of the ultimate road trip to retrace Marco Polo's journey from Venice to China via land and sea. http://www.wliw.org/marcopolo WLIW.org, "In the footsteps of Marco Polo", PBS 2009
A 1982 miniseries featured Ken Marshall and Ruocheng Ying . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083446/ IMDb.com, Marco Polo TV Mini-series 1982
The 2007 television miniseries, Marco Polo , starring Brian Dennehy as Kublai Khan, and Ian Somerhalder as Marco, portrays Marco Polo being left alone in China while his uncle and father return to Venice, to be reunited with him many years later. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813789/ IMDb.com, Marco Polo TV Mini-series 2007
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External links
Commons category|Marco Polowikisource author
http://www.innvenice.com/Marco-Polo.htm Marco Polo's house in Venice, near the church of San Giovanni Grisostomo
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/07/01/sights_n_sounds/media.2.2.html National Geographic Marco Polo: Journey from Venice to China
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/marco/index.html In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Journey through the Met to the Land of the Great Khan
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Authority control|PND=118595563|LCCN=n/79/55818|VIAF=22147202 Persondata |NAME=Polo, Marco |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Famous explorer |DATE OF BIRTH=1254 |PLACE OF BIRTH= Venice , Republic of Venice |DATE OF DEATH=January 8–9, 1324 |PLACE OF DEATH=Venice, Republic of Venice DEFAULTSORT:Polo, Marco Category:Marco Polo| Category:Italian Roman Catholics Category:1254 births Category:1324 deaths Category:13th-century explorers Category:Italian expatriates in China Category:Explorers of Asia Category:Explorers of Central Asia Category:Venetian explorers Category:Venetian merchants Category:Italian travel writers Category:People from Venice (city)
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