Who Was Alive

Were Marco Polo and Giovanni Boccaccio alive at the same time?

Yes. Marco Polo and Giovanni Boccaccio were alive at the same time for 10 or 11 years, from 1313 to 1324.

Marco Polo was 58 or 59 when Giovanni Boccaccio was born.

Giovanni Boccaccio was 10 or 11 when Marco Polo died, aged 69.

Marco Polo

Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia

Born 15 September 1254 · died 8 January 1324, aged 69

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet

Born 1313 · died 21 December 1375, aged 61 or 62

  1. Rumi
  2. Thomas Aquinas
  3. Marco Polo
  4. Dante Alighieri
  5. Ibn Battuta
  6. Petrarch
  7. Giovanni Boccaccio
  8. Ibn Khaldun
  9. Geoffrey Chaucer
Marco Polo and Giovanni Boccaccio in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.