# Marco Polo's will is drawn in Venice

Date: 1324

## The fact

On 9 January 1324 [Marco Polo](/people/marco-polo) made his will in Venice. He died the same year. The will is a dated Venetian instrument. Marco Polo's documented role is: He made a testament disposing of property including a Tartar slave in some readings of the document. The notary wrote it.

## Context

Sharing the notarial act with the Venetian legal machine is required. The setting of Marco Polo's will is drawn in Venice is the public file around 1324-01-09. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver [fiscal-policy-sustainability](/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is fiscal-policy-sustainability. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica independently dates the 1324 will. Venetian archive heritage locates Polo papers. Official carrier: Archivio di Stato di Venezia — testamento di Marco Polo later archival notices (https://www.archiviodistatovenezia.it/; Archivio di Stato di Venezia). Independent carrier: Britannica — Marco Polo, death and will 1324 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Archivio di Stato di Venezia — testamento di Marco Polo later archival notices (https://www.archiviodistatovenezia.it/; Archivio di Stato di Venezia).

## Significance

Improving (record) fiscal path of low weight. Direct. High confidence on a 1324 testament as received. The welfare reading on this path is improving. Readers checking this Fact should open both named URLs for Marco Polo's will is drawn in Venice.

Shared responsibility is part of Marco Polo's will is drawn in Venice. Naming Marco Polo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1324-01-09 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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1324 will and death year. Not established: a complete inventory unique to this catalog. Established: a sourced public record of Marco Polo's will is drawn in Venice under 1324-01-09.

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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not invent unique bequest integers. Mixed effects of Marco Polo's will is drawn in Venice are separate paths.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo
- https://www.archiviodistatovenezia.it/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-will-1324