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{{Infobox book
| title = The Travels of Marco Polo
| original title = Il Milione
| image = Marco Polo, Il Milione, Chapter CXXIII and CXXIV.jpg
| caption = A page from Chapter CXXIII and CXXIV: The army of the Khan attacking the rebellious King of Mien (now Burma, in Myanmar). Note that Polo describes the King attacking the Khan with elephants, whereas the illustrator depicts the Khan attacking the King with elephants.
| author = Rustichello da Pisa
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| genre = Traveller's tale
| publication date = circa 1300
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Marco Polo was a [[The High Middle Ages|13th century]] Venetian merchant who set out for [[Venice]] on a [[The Quest|journey]] to the east. He stayed there many years serving [[The Emperor]] of China, Kublai Khan. Upon returning he set out as a warrior in the Venetian Fleet to meet the hereditary foe, the Genoans.
He was captured and apparently looked too rich for the Genoans to throw him overboard and waste a good ransom. In any case he was kept prisoner next to a professional [[The Storyteller|storyteller]] and told his adventures to pass the time. This story was later published under the title ''Description of the World'' or ''Books of the Marvels of the World'', but it has eventually become better known under its nickname ''Il Milione'' or, more simply, ''[[The Travels of Marco Polo]]''. The ''Travels'' themselves are a surprisingly dull book but the idea of the story was so powerful that it became a classic, and Marco was nicknamed ''Il Millione'' for the "millions" of tales he brought back.
Curiously, very little is known about Marco Himself. For that reason, even though more then one "biography" has been written, large parts often come from the author's imagination.
Not to be confused with the
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* [[Badass Bureaucrat]]: Marco ''claimed'' he had been this for [[The Emperor|Kublai Khan]].
* [[Badass Family]]: The Polos
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* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Do remember he might have [[Unreliable Narrator|mildly exaggerated this]].
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Let me tell you...", "What more need/shall I say?", "What need to make a long story of it?", "Let us now..." and ''a lot'' more.
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