Author:Marco Polo

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Marco Polo
(1254–1324)

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Venetian trader and explorer. Companion of his father Niccolò and uncle Matteo or Maffeo on a trading expedition to Central Asia and possibly China, which became the subject of an immensely famous account of their travels, transcribed and possibly embellished in a Genovese prison.

Works

Livre des Merveilles du Monde, Devisement du Monde, Il Milione, Travels, &c., transcribed by Rustichello da Pisa
- The Book of Ser Marco Polo, translated and annotated by Henry Yule (transcription volumes: Vol. I, Vol. II, Notes and addenda)
  - "Abach and Abyssinia", an excerpt in Henry Salt's Voyage to Abyssinia

Works about Polo

"Marco Polo", in Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Haaren (1904)
"Marco Polo," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Polo, Marco," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Marco Polo", a poem by Jaroslav Vrchlický

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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