BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Seven hundred years after his death, legendary Italian traveler Marco Polo remains an inspiration for those passionate about the cultures of China and Italy, and a symbol of the ties between the two countries. A Chinese-language book that brings together the two ...
He apparently returned to private life and business until his death in 1324. Record of his travels While imprisoned in Genoa, Marco Polo related the story of his travels to a fellow prisoner named Rusticiano, a man from Pisa, Italy, who wrote in the romantic style of thirteenth-century ...
Polo’s Legacy and Death After Polo returned to Italy, Venice was unstable and was at war. Marco was taken prisoner and spent several months in prison. During his time in prison, he dictated his travels to a fellow inmate. This book soon spread throughout Europe in manuscript form and exp...
" said Abernethy. "At first, many viewed the book as fiction, more like a chivalric fable with its seemingly tall tales and descriptions of fantastical animals. Many copies of the book were created and it was translated into several languages. It was only after Polo's death ...
Birth SignVirgo BirthplaceVenice,Italy DEATH DATEJan 9, 1324 (age69) #6,025Most Popular Boost About Thirteenth-century explorer and namesake of the swimming pool game. He was the first European to keep a detailed journal of his experiences in China, and his writings became points of inspiratio...
After his death in 1227, his successors continued aggressive pushes to the east and the west. In the decades before Marco Polo's birth, Mongolian armies invaded Ukraine, Poland, and Hungary before finally being defeated in Austria. In the east, Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, ...
The year 2024 marks both the 20th anniversary of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Italy and the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo's death.On May 3rd and 4th, the original opera "Marco Polo" returned to the Guangzhou Opera House, br
The biography of Marco Polo tells the story of one of the most famous explorers of all time. Leaving Venice with his father and uncle, he spent 24 years going ...
The Italian Marco Polo is probably the world’s most famous traveler and one of the world’s first travel writers. The famous Venetian is believed to have left Venice at age 17 to embark on a 24-year journey through the Persian Gulf and Asia, spending mu
At the same time, in order to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of the legendary Italian traveler Marco Polo, the Guangzhou Grand Theater recently re-staged the original opera "Marco Polo". The play is performed on May 3rd and 4th. On May 2, a reporter from 21st Century ...