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A Niccolò's journal titled The Secret Crusade is also featured in the game. The brothers are also featured in Netflix's historical fiction series, Marco Polo which premiered in 2014. Niccolò and Maffeo are characters in the 1982 miniseries Marco Polo, played by Denholm Elliott and Tony Vogel, respectively.
However, since also his father Niccolò was nicknamed Milione, [27] 19th-century philologist Luigi Foscolo Benedetto was persuaded that Milione was a shortened version of Emilione, and that this nickname was used to distinguish Niccolò's and Marco's branch from other Polo families. [28] [29]
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.
— Marco Polo, Venetian traveller in Asia (c. January 9, 1324), ... — Niccolò Machiavelli (21 June 1527), Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer
Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini were the chief originators of the science of history. [2] Pietro Bembo was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language . In 1690, the Academy of Arcadia was instituted with the goal of "restoring" literature by imitating the simplicity of the ancient shepherds with sonnets ...
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
Marco Polo. Courtesy Max Mara. Twentysomethings today may think they’re on a voyage of discovery every time they log on to TikTok, but centuries before the digital age, there were real explorers ...
The Travels of Marco Polo (13th century). A travelogue of Polo's expeditions to Asia, originally known as Devisement du Monde (Description of the World). Includes a description of the Assassins and the Old Man in the Mountain. [90] Voyages en Syrie de Nicolo, Maffeo & Marco Polo (1269–1271).