Study of Marco Polo's will sheds new light on famed traveler
Updated: 2018-04-18 13:16
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Polo left money to Church institutions in Venice, forgave outstanding debts, and freed his indentured servant, a Tatar he had named Peter, "so that God may absolve my soul from all guilt and sin".
In the late 20th century a few historians argued that Polo never made it to China but picked up stories of the Mongol Empire from Persian merchants he met on the Black Sea.
