Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299, and returned home to Venice, where his father and uncle had purchased a large house in the zone named "contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo" (Corte del Milion).
Verjetno je bil ujet v spopadu leta 1296, v Turčiji med Adano in zalivom Alexandretta in ne v bitki Curzola (september 1298), ob dalmatinski obali.