Editing Marco Polo (section)

=== Nickname {{lang|it|Milione}} ===
He was nicknamed {{lang|it|Milione}} during his lifetime (which in Italian literally means 'Million'). The Italian title of his book was Il Libro di Marco Polo soprannominato Milione, which means "The Book of Marco Polo, nicknamed 'Milione'"". According to the 15th-century humanist [[Giovanni Battista Ramusio]], his fellow citizens awarded him this nickname when he came back to Venice because he kept on saying that Kublai Khan's wealth was counted in millions. More precisely, he was nicknamed {{lang|it|Messer Marco Milioni}} (Mr Marco Millions).<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tBUnTVojIcUC Giovan Battista Ramusion, Delle navigationi et viaggi Vol. II]'', Giunti, Venezia, 1574.</ref>

However, since also his father Niccolò was nicknamed {{lang|it|Milione}},<ref>Marco Polo, Il Milione, [[De Agostini|Istituto Geografico DeAgostini]], 1965, p.22</ref> 19th-century philologist Luigi Foscolo Benedetto was persuaded that {{lang|it|Milione}} was a shortened version of {{lang|it|Emilione}}, and that this nickname was used to distinguish Niccolò's and Marco's branch from other Polo families.<ref>[[Luigi Foscolo Benedetto|Benedetto, L. F]].: Marco Polo, il Milione, Firenze, 1928 in Marco Polo, Il Milione, [[De Agostini|Istituto Geografico DeAgostini]], 1965, p.22</ref><ref name="allulli">{{lang|it|... volendosi ravvisare nella parola "Milione" la forma ridotta di un diminutivo arcaico "Emilione" che pare sia servito a meglio identificare il nostro Marco distinguendolo per tal modo da tutti i numerosi Marchi della sua famiglia.}} ([[Ranieri Allulli]], ''MARCO POLO E IL LIBRO DELLE MERAVIGLIE – Dialogo in tre tempi del giornalista Qualunquelli Junior e dell'astrologo Barbaverde'', Milano, Mondadori, 1954, p.26)</ref>