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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
3o INTRODUCTION
fragments of the decoration of the saine mansion, are found
imbedded in the walls of neighbouring houses.* It is im-
possible to determine anything further as to the form or
extent of the house of the time of the Polos, but some slight
idea of its appearance about the year 1500 may be seen in
the extract (fig A) which we give from the famous pictorial
map of Venice attributed erroneously to Albert D-ürer. The
state of the buildings in the last century is shown in (fig. B) an
extract from the fine Map of Ughi ; and their present condition
in one (fig. C) reduced from the Modern Official Map of the
Municipality.
[Coming from the Church of S. G. Grisostomo to enter the
calle del Teatro on the left and the passage (Sottoportico)
leading to the Corte del Milione, one has in front of him a
building with a door of the epoch of the Renaissance ; it was
the office of the provveditori of silk ; on the architrave are
engraved the words :
PROVISORES SERICI
and below, above the door, is the Tablet which] in the year
1827 the Abate Zenier caused to be put up with this inscription :
AEDES PROXIMA THALIAE CVLTVI MODO ADDICTA MA RCI POLO P. V. ITIN ER v M FAMA PRAECLARI JAM HABITATIO FVIT.
24a. I believe that of late years some doubts have been
thrown on the tradition of the site indicated as that of the
Recent cor- Casa Polo, though I am not aware of the grounds of
roboration such doubts. But a document recently discovered
as to the tra-
ditional site at Venice by Comm. Barozzi, one of a series relating
of the Casa 5
Polo. to the testamentary estate of Marco Polo, goes far
to confirm the tradition. This is the copy of a technical defini-
tion of two pieces of house property adjoining the property of
Marco Polo and his brother Stephen, which were sold to
Marco Polo by his wife Donata t in June 13 21. Though the
definition is not decisive, from the rarity of topographical re-
ferences and absence of points of the compass, the description
* Sec Ruskin, iii. 32o.
t Comm. Barozzi writes : " Among us, contracts between husband and 'vife are and were very common, and recognized by law. The wife sells to the husband property not included in dowry, or that she may have inherited, just as any third person might." •
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