TV Review: Marco Polo, a ‘Latin’ in the Court of Kublai Khan, on Netflix

He wrote the equivalent of a bestselling memoir before the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press. Dozens of handwritten manuscripts of “Travels of Marco Polo” have widely circulated, making it rather difficult to determine the canonical truth of the celebrated merchant’s life.

Lorenzo Richelmy plays the titular adventurer in Netflix's new series "Marco Polo." Phil Bray for Netflix