When Marco returned to Venice, he took the notes with him and this became The Description of the World. People soon translated the book into Italian and it became famous. Priests, rich men, and students all read it.
In 1300, Marco married a woman called Donata Badoer, the daughter of a rich merchant, and ther had three girls-Fantina, Bellela, and Moreta. He also continued to work as a merchant in Venice, but he never travelled again.
After The Description of the World became famous, some people began to call Marco Milione because they thought that his book had a million things in it that were not ture. But Marco always said that everything in his stories was real.
Just before Marco Polo died in 1324 at the age of seventy, some of his friends spoke to him. They wanted him to tell them about his book before he died-was everything in there true? But Marco was very sure about his stories and he said to his friends:'I have only told the half of what I saw.'