公元1275年,威尼斯著名的商人旅行家马可·波罗跟随父亲、叔父来到中国,受到蒙古大汗元世祖忽必烈的接见和器重,留在身边为侍从,也时而奉命到全国许多地方经商或工作,了解中国的很多事物。1291年初才离开中国,1295年回到故乡威尼斯,1296年因参与威尼斯与热那亚的战争,被俘囚有热那亚监狱。在狱中,他讲述的东方之旅引人入胜,同狱的比萨作家 In 1275 AD, Venice’s famous businessman traveler Marco Polo came to China with his father and his uncle came to China. He was interviewed by Kublai Khan, the great ancestor of Mongolia, and stayed there as a servant. He was also sometimes ordered to go to many places throughout the country Do business or work to understand many things in China. He left China in early 1291 and returned to his hometown of Venice in 1295. He was captured in Genoa prison in 1296 for participating in the war between Venice and Genoa. In jail he is fascinated by the oriental journey he tells of, and is a Pisa writer in prison