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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]
Marco Polo (c. 1253–1323) Niccolò and Maffeo Polo (c. 1230 – c. 1294, c. 1230 – c. 1309) Michele Pontrandolfo (born 1971) Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933) Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà (1852–1905) Giovanni da Verrazzano (1484–1527) Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) Ugolino Vivaldi (fl ...
Marco di Bartolomeo Rustici (1392–1457), a Florentine goldsmith, whose travels are documented as Dimostrazione dell'andata o viaggio al Santo Sepolcro e al Monte Sinai (1441–1442), or Codex Rustici (cf. Italian Wikipedia, Codice Rustici). An account of Rustici's journey (or voyage) to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Mount Sinai.
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 (c. 1254–1324), explorer and merchant, famous for his travels in central Asia and China. Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), explorer for France.
In 1271, armed with a curious mind and a thirst for adventure, Venetian merchant Marco Polo headed east. He returned 24 years later with so many stories of the Silk Road that he was nicknamed Il ...
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.