The book was written in Old French by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, who worked from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned together in Genoa.
O libro foi escrito en francés antigo polo escritor Rustichello da Pisa, quen traballou a partir de relatos que ouvira de Marco Polo cando estiveron encarcerados xuntos en Xénova.