Marco Polo And Korcula Posted: September 8, 2020 @ 7:17 pm

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In 1300, he married Donata Badoèr, the daughter of Vitale Badoèr, a service provider. They continued overland until they arrived at Kublai Khan's place in Shangdu, China . Impressed by Marco's intelligence and humility, Khan appointed him to function his foreign emissary to India and Burma. He was sent on many diplomatic missions all through his empire and in Southeast Asia (corresponding to in present-day Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam), but additionally entertained the Khan with tales and observations concerning the lands he saw. As part of this appointment, Marco traveled extensively inside China, residing within the emperor's lands for 17 years.
An authoritative version of Marco Polo's guide does not and cannot exist, for the early manuscripts differ significantly, and the reconstruction of the unique text is a matter of textual criticism. A total of about 150 copies in numerous languages are recognized to exist. Before availability of printing press, errors had been incessantly made during copying and translating, so there are many variations between the varied copies.
During the journey, however, they acquired information that after 33 months of trip, lastly the Conclave had elected the brand new Pope and that he was precisely the archdeacon of Acre. The three of them hurried to return to the Holy Land, the place the new Pope entrusted them with letters for the "Great Khan", inviting him to send his emissaries to Rome. To give more weight to this mission he despatched with the Polos, as his legates, two Dominican fathers, Guglielmo of Tripoli and Nicola of Piacenza. His father, Niccolò Polo, a merchant, traded with the Near East, becoming rich and reaching nice prestige. Niccolò and his brother Maffeo set off on a trading voyage earlier than Marco's delivery.
On January eight, 1324, despite physicians' efforts to deal with him, Polo was on his deathbed. To write and certify the desire, his family requested Giovanni Giustiniani, a priest of San Procolo. His spouse, Donata, and his three daughters have been appointed by him as co-executrices. The church was entitled by legislation to a portion of his property; he approved of this and ordered that an extra sum be paid to the convent of San Lorenzo, the place where he wished to be buried. He also set free Peter, a Tartar servant, who might have accompanied him from Asia, and to whom Polo bequeathed one hundred lire of Venetian denari.
They sailed to Acre and later rode on their camels to the Persian port Hormuz. During the first stages of the journey, they stayed for a few months in Acre and have been capable of communicate with Archdeacon Tedaldo Visconti of Piacenza. The Polo household, on that event, had expressed their remorse at the long lack of a pope, because on their previous trip to China they'd received a letter from Kublai Khan to the Pope, and had thus needed to leave for China dissatisfied.
Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299, and returned residence to Venice, where his father and uncle within the meantime had bought a large palazzo within the zone named contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo . For such a enterprise, the Polo family probably invested earnings from buying and selling, and even many gem stones they introduced from the East. The firm continued its activities and Marco soon turned a wealthy service provider. Marco and his uncle Maffeo financed other expeditions, but likely never left Venetian provinces, nor returned to the Silk Road and Asia.

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