Marco Polo (1254-1324) entrusted the account of his travels to the East to Rustichello da Pisa, an author of chivalric novels whom he met in the Genoese prisons in 1298. The result was Le Divisement dou Monde, or Milione, an extraordinary account of what was seen at the court of the Gran Cane: «selonc que en celle escripture se contenoit, fu verité, selonc ce qe je, Marc Pol, vit puis apertemant a mes iaux».
