No one is really sure on the exact date of Marco Polo's birth, but it was estimated to be around 1254 into a noble family of Venetian merchants. Mostly his mother raised Marco Polo because his father Niccolo and his brother Maffeo left Venice to travel the world. It was nine years until Marco could see his father and uncle again. Marco received the same education then the other boys of his time. He was a well-educated man. He knew a lot of the classical authors, understood text from the bible and knew the basic theology of the Latin Church. He also had a sound knowledge of commercial French and Italian.
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