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The chapter also examines here what little is known about Bellela Polo, Moreta Polo, and Fantina Polo—the daughters of Marco Polo—whose names are found on a number of the documents. From a reading of the maps, it seems that the daughters were recording or preserving information about Asia brought back by their father, Marco Polo.
Fantina Polo (1303 – between 28 August 1375 and 18 December 1385) was a noblewoman of the Republic of Venice . Biography. A Venetian patrician, she was the second daughter of Marco Polo and Donata Badoer.
Whereas other Rossi documents, such as the “Fantina Polo” maps (see pl. 6 and pl. 7) and the “Moreta Polo” maps (see pl. 8 and figs. 4a and 4b ), seem to have their roots in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the figure on the recto of the “Map of the New World” is accompanied by an explanatory text in the form of a letter with a sixteenth...
Though Marco Polo never produced a map that illustrated his journey, his family drew several maps to the Far East based on the traveller's accounts. These collections of maps were signed by Polo's three daughters, Fantina, Bellela and Moreta.
The first document—the “Fantina Polo Map 1” (see pl. 6)—is a map covering Europe, northern Africa, and Asia, set in a kind of “longitude-latitude” grid, with place-names referred to by a series of Roman numerals. The map is signed “Fantina Polo” with the year “1329.”
Olshin’s discussion of the maps attributed to Marco Polo’s three daughters Fantina, Moreta, and Bellela, brings up additional questions that Olshin might have investigated further (or did and found documentation lacking). How would the information have been conveyed to them and when?
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Oct 29, 2014 · The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps. This is the first credible book-length analysis of the maps once owned by the late Marcian Rossi, an Italian immigrant who believed the maps in his...
