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Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian: Il Milione, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), [1] in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo.
Looking at a 10th century Arabic text known as the Marvels of India, I'm going to suggest that what he left out includes shipwrecks and cannibals. Marvels of India, like Polo and Ibn Battuta, is a collection of anecdotes, although it doesn't really attempt to be a cohesive travel narrative of any sort.
Jan 8, 2024 · Filled with wonders, Marco Polo's tales are the first European account of the Silk Road. But, 700 years after the famed Venetian merchant and explorer's death, can they be trusted?
Sep 19, 2021 · For example, when the Italian, describes the Indonesian Island of Sumatra, he stated correctly, that there were cannibals on the island, but he also says that there were men with tails to be found here.
Sep 10, 2019 · Marco Polo carries his popular book Il Milione, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, in this 19th-century mosaic in the Doria-Tursi Palace, Genoa.
The Travels of Marco Polo is an account of Polo's adventure through the Orient in the thirteenth century. It is more of a firsthand account of his travels than a cohesive story line,...
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Jul 7, 2014 · It surely seems that the book’s two repeated claims may well be true: that Marco Polo had traveled further and knew more of the world than any other man who had ever lived; and that the Mongol empire under Kublai Khan was the largest empire in subjects and geographical area ever to have existed.
