Rustichello da Pisa

Scholar, born in Pisa, Tuscany, W Italy. He spent a long time in France, where he assembled the material from the Breton cycle that would shape his chivalry work Meliadus, which he wrote in a mixture of French–Venetian. While in a Genoese jail in 1298, he met Venetian traveller Marco Polo, who dictated his Il Milione, which Rustichello wrote in French with the title Livre des merveilles du monde.

late 13th century) was an Italian romance writer best known for cowriting Marco Polo's autobiography while they were in prison together in Genoa. When Polo was imprisoned around 1298 after a clash between Genoa and Venice (according to tradition the Battle of Curzola), he dictated his tales of travel to Rustichello, and together they turned it into the book known as Il Milione or, in English, The Travels of Marco Polo.

Earlier, Rustichello had written a work in French known as the Roman de Roi Artus (Romance of King Arthur) or simply the Compilation, derived from a book in the possession of Edward I of England, who passed through Italy on his way to fight in the Eighth Crusade in 1272, and at whose court Rustichello served for many years. these remained popular for hundreds of years, and influenced works written in French as well as in Spanish, Italian, and even Greek.