# In Genoese captivity Polo dictates the Travels to Rustichello da Pisa

Date: 1298

## The fact

About 1298–99, after a Venetian–Genoese clash, [Polo](/people/marco-polo) in Genoa dictated a travel book to Rustichello da Pisa. The surviving form is a collaboration. Marco Polo's documented role is: He dictated. Rustichello wrote chivalric French prose. The book is joint; later manuscripts multiply.

## Context

Sharing authorship with Rustichello is required. Later Franco-Italian and Tuscan recensions are carriers, not extra lifetime acts. The setting of In Genoese captivity Polo dictates the Travels to Rustichello da Pisa is the public file around 1298-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat Gutenberg HTML as 1298 autograph. Mixed effects of In Genoese captivity Polo dictates the Travels to Rustichello da Pisa are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica independently places the dictation. Gutenberg is a later English access. Official carrier: Project Gutenberg — The Travels of Marco Polo, public English carrier (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Britannica — Il Milione, Rustichello (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Project Gutenberg — The Travels of Marco Polo, public English carrier (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Improving education-access path of high weight for this Person. Complex. High confidence on a joint book; medium on every episode inside it. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a joint book originating in Genoese captivity as received. Not established: that every marvel is an autograph sighting. Established: a sourced public record of In Genoese captivity Polo dictates the Travels to Rustichello da Pisa under 1298-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of In Genoese captivity Polo dictates the Travels to Rustichello da Pisa. Naming Marco Polo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1298-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Marco Polo: https://factrail.ai/people/marco-polo

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-genoa-dictation-1298