The source of the title Il Milione is debated. One view is it comes from the Polo family's use of the name Emilione to distinguish themselves from the numerous other Venetian families bearing the name Polo. A more common … 查看更多內容

Marco Polo was accompanied on his trips by his father and uncle (both of whom had been to China previously), though neither of them published any known works about their journeys. The book was translated into many European languages in Marco Polo's own … 查看更多內容

Although Marco Polo was certainly the most famous, he was not the only nor the first European traveller to the Mongol Empire who subsequently wrote an account of his … 查看更多內容

The Travels is divided into four books. Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. Book Two describes … 查看更多內容

The Travels was a rare popular success in an era before printing.
The impact of Polo's book on cartography was delayed: the first map in which some names … 查看更多內容

Since its publication, many have viewed the book with skepticism. Some in the Middle Ages viewed the book simply as a romance or fable, largely because of the sharp difference of its descriptions of a sophisticated civilisation in China to other early accounts by 查看更多內容

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• Polo, Marco; Rustichello da Pisa (1350). "Devisement du monde" (in Old French). World Digital Library, from the National Library of Sweden, M 304. Retrieved 27 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location ( 查看更多內容