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Niccolò and Maffeo are characters in the 1982 miniseries Marco Polo, played by Denholm Elliott and Tony Vogel, respectively. They are portrayed by Massimo Girotti and Mića Orlović in the 1965 movie Marco the Magnificent.
Niccolò Polo war ein venezianischer Kaufherr und Vater des berühmten mittelalterlichen Chinareisenden Marco Polo. Gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Maffeo Polo unternahm Niccolò Polo etwa von 1260 bis 1269 eine erste Handelsreise ins Mongolenreich, wurde von Kublai Khan gut aufgenommen und von diesem bei der Heimreise mit der Zusendung ...
In 1260, Niccolò and Maffeo, while residing in Constantinople, then the capital of the Latin Empire, foresaw a political change; they liquidated their assets into jewels and moved away. According to The Travels of Marco Polo, they passed through much of Asia, and met with Kublai Khan, a Mongol ruler and founder of the Yuan dynasty.
Niccoló Polo. fl. 1200s. Venetian merchant and trader who made several extended trips into central Asia to the court of Kublai Khan. He made the first trip, 1253-1269, with his brother Maffeo; the second, 1271-1295, with his son Marco and Maffeo.
In 1260 the brothers Nicolo and Maffeo Polo set out on a trading expedition to Crimea. After two years they were ready to return to Venice, but, finding the way home blocked by war, they traveled eastward to Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan in Central Asia), where they spent another… Read More.
8. Mai 2024 · Marco Polo’s father, Niccolò, and uncle, Maffeo, continued this legacy. Traveling east as far as Mongol emperor Kublai Khan’s summer residence, Shangdu, they established friendly relations with him before returning to Europe as his ambassadors.
Venetian merchant and trader who made several extended trips into central Asia to the court of Kublai Khan. He made the first trip, 1253-1269, with his brother Niccoló; the second, 1271-1295, with Niccoló and Niccoló's son Marco. They were among the first Europeans to visit this part of the world.