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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 (c. 1230 - c. 1294) fue un comerciante y explorador veneciano, padre del famoso explorador Marco Polo. Trabajando con su hermano Maffeo Polo la mayor parte de su vida, establecieron puestos comerciales en Constantinopla, Sudak y en la parte occidental del Imperio mongol.
Niccolò Polo ( c. 1230 - c. 1294) fue un comerciante y explorador veneciano, padre del famoso explorador Marco Polo. Trabajando con su hermano Maffeo Polo la mayor parte de su vida, establecieron puestos comerciales en Constantinopla, Sudak y en la parte occidental del Imperio mongol.
8 de may. de 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.
Niccolò and his brother Maffeo set off on a trading voyage before Marco's birth. 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.
In 1266 Venetian traders Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, the father and uncle of Marco Polo, were among the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China. Before the birth of Marco, they established trading posts in Constantinople, Sudak in the Crimea, and in a western part of the Mongol Empire.
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.
