In Acre, Palestine, a prominent church politician, Teobaldo Visconti, gave the Polos letters for the Great Khan explaining why the Polos had been unable to carry out his request for a hundred wise men.
في تلك الاثناء وُلد ماركو ،‏ ومضت خمس عشرة سنة قبل ان يلتقي بأبيه لأول مرة عام ١٢٦٩ .‏