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Add cheezybread, wings & more!. Marco is a Indian Malayalam -language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Haneef Adeni and produced by Shareef Muhammed under his Cubes Entertainments banner. But, years after the famed Venetian merchant and explorer's death, can they be trusted? Can a man who claimed to have seen a unicorn in the Indonesian island of Sumatra be trusted?

This and other similarly valid questions have cast doubt on the truthfulness of Marco Polo since the 14th Century, when his book The Travels of Marco Polo became a bestseller and was translated into dozens of languages, hand-copied in countless manuscripts and available at any lavish court in Europe. Polo's tales are the first European account of the Silk Road, and they are full of wonders, spices, gold and precious stones.

They also describe extravagant sexual habits as well as intriguing war strategies, making his travelogue a real pleasure to read but also partially "hard to believe", as one particularly scrupulous amanuensis noted on the side of his copy. No need to be sceptical though. Today, years after Polo's death on 8 January , we can say with a certain authority that the famed Venetian merchant, explorer, writer and self-made anthropologist indeed saw a unicorn, or at least, that he didn't lie about it.

It was an openminded and multicultural metropolis, a vibrant centre for trade between the East and the West, where the only true religion was business — and the Polo family excelled at it. The Polos sold everything just in time and went eastward looking for new markets they would trade in silk, spices, gems and the much sought-after gland of a small animal, the musk deer, used to concoct perfumes.

They came back few years later and, on their second trip to China in , they took Marco, who was 17 years old at the time. They then spent about 20 years in China, doing business and working as sort of ambassadors for the local government. They came back through Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, sailing around India before reaching Aden, Istanbul and finally Venice see animated map below.

When they reached home, Polo was in his 40s. According to the legend, when they knocked at the door of their palazzo, the servant asked who was there, and they answered in the local dialect " i paroni " "the owners". A year later, though, Polo was in jail. He had been captured by the Genovese in one of the battles between the rival maritime cities of Venice and Genoa.

In prison, he had the good fortune to meet a writer and editor, Rustichello da Pisa, who saw the literary potential of Polo's recount of a world that at the time was largely unknown to Europeans. And so, they wrote it down. The book was a hit. The manuscript was so entertaining that it was copied multiple times and translated in various languages. Over the centuries, it became a perfect riddle for philologists, as the original version was soon lost and what was left are dozens of translations of translations, none of which are necessarily accurate.

Eugenio Burgio, who has been studying Marco Polo's oeuvres at the Venetian University Ca' Foscari for about as long as Polo was away from home, gave me an example of this book's journey: a French version could be translated into a northern dialect from the region between Emilia Romagna and Veneto. This version could in turn be rearranged in Tuscan dialect.

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And from the Tuscan, someone translated it into Latin. How close is this Latin version to the original? It's hard to tell, but Burgio and his team aim at publishing the first philologically complete edition of Marco Polo's Travels later this year, in English, with the goal of offering the most plausible hypothesis and versions. And that is exactly what he and his team are doing: unearthing this literary gem written by one of the world's first travel writers.

In the US, "Marco Polo" is a popular tag game played in swimming pools, where a blindfolded player calls out "Marco! Curiously, the legacy of the homonymous Venetian traveller is just as elusive as the players in the game. Not only is the original version of his book lost forever but Polo's family palazzo was burnt in a fire in the 16th Century. When Zorzi took me on a short walk from his apartment to visit the site, we saw at least six marble plates placed on different buildings claiming to be the Polos' house.

Polo's tombstone in the Venetian church of San Lorenzo disappeared too, and no monument in the city was ever dedicated to him.