Marco Polo

:This article is about the Venetian explorer. For other uses, see Marco Polo (disambiguation)

Later life

Marco Polo was finally released from captivity in the summer of 1299, and he returned home to Venice, where his father and uncles had bought a large house in the central quarter named contrada San Giovanni Grisostomo with the company's profits.

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1299 - San Giovanni Grisostomo

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The company continued its activities, and Marco was now a wealthy merchant. While he personally financed other expeditions, he would never leave Venice again. In 1300, he married Donata Badoer, a woman from an old, respected patrician family. Marco would have three children with her: Fantina, Bellela and Moreta. All of them later married into noble families.

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Between 1310 and 1320, he wrote a new version of his book, Il Milione, in Italian. The text was lost, but not before a Franciscan friar, named Francesco Pipino, translated it into Latin. This Latin version was then translated back into the Italian, creating conflicts between different editions of the book.

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1310 - 1320 - Italian - Franciscan - Latin

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Marco Polo died in his home on January 1324, at almost 70 years-old. He was buried in the Church of San Lorenzo.

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January - 1324 - San Lorenzo

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