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Portrait of Marco Polo from The Description of the World, Marco Polo,

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Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer and writer, was the first European to chronicle an account of his travels through Central Asia and China with his father Nicolò and uncle Maffeo.  In , at the age of seventeen, Marco embarked with his father and uncle on a twenty-four year odyssey, returning to Venice in   The first printed edition of Marco Polo’s Travels was published in Nurmberg [Nuremberg] by Fricz Creüssner in   The book was titled Hie hebt sich an das puch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers Marcho Polo, and featured a full-page woodcut of Marco Polo wearing traveling clothes.

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The Description of the World, Marco Polo,

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This same portrait was also included in Marco Polo’s The Description of the World, translated by A.

C. Moule and Paul Pelliot, which was published in London in   The type-set inscription in Middle High German that surr