Marco Polo (1254–1324)

Marco Polo (1254–1324), Mosaik in der Villa Hanbury, Ventimiglia, Italien, 2010, unbekannter Künstler, Photograph: Lotho2; Bildquelle: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marco-polo-hanbury.JPG.

Marco Polo (1254–1324) was a Venetian merchant, and he travelled with his father Niccolò Polo (1230–1300) and his uncle Maffeo Polo (1252–1309) to China and elsewhere. His descriptions of his travels had a marked and lasting effect on European ideas about Asia, and they were translated into several languages from the 15th century onward.

Marco Polo (1254–1324), Mosaic in Villa Hanbury, Ventimiglia, Italy, 2010, unknown artist, photographer: Lotho2; image source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marco-polo-hanbury.JPG, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en.