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Marco Polo


Born
in Venice, Venetian republic
August 11, 1254

Died
December 31, 1323

Genre


From 1271, Marco Polo of Venice explored Asia to 1295; the only available Travels of Marco Polo accounted China to Europeans until the 1500s.

Marco Polo spun a tale of how people gave a life of sensual pleasure and a potion to make young Assassins to yearn for paradise, their reward for dying in action, before their secret missions.

Stories and various documents also alternatively point to his ancestry, originating in Korčula, Croatia.

People well knew this trader. He recorded his adventures in a published book. People lost the original copies of his works.

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Quotes by Marco Polo  (?)
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“I have not told the half of what I saw.”
Marco Polo

“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
Marco Polo, on his deathbed

“I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
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