This person describes fantastic places to a king in  Invisible Cities  by Italo Calvino.
his character describes how Maurilians prefer visitors to praise postcards of their former scenery over their current, and how Eusapians pose their dead in an identical underground metropolis. While playing chess in a magnolia garden, this person uses memory, desire, signs, eyes, names, the dead, and the sky to categorize places that come in thin, trading, continuous, and hidden varieties. This author described "black stones that burn like logs" and paper (*)  money made from mulberry trees. This person describes fantastic places to a king in  Invisible Cities  by Italo Calvino. Rustichello da Pisa transcribed a book by this author titled  Il Milione , which recounts journeys he took with his father and uncle. For 10 points, name this Italian traveler who described Kublai Khan's court.
his character describes how Maurilians prefer visitors to praise postcards of their former scenery over their current, and how Eusapians pose their dead in an identical underground metropolis.
Marco  Polo  [or  Marco  Polo]