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Citation Information
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LAST NOTICES OF THE FAMILY 75
There is no portrait of Marco Polo in existence with any claim
to authenticity. The quaint figure which we give in the Biblio-
graphy, vol. ii. p. 555, extracted from the earliest printed edition
of his book, can certainly rriake no such pretension. The oldest
one after this is probably a picture in the collection of Monsignor
Badia at Rome, of which I am now able, by the owner's courtesy,
to give a copy. It is set down in the catalogue to Titian, but
is probably a work of 1600, or thereabouts, to which the aspect
and costume belong. It is inscribed " Marcus Polvs Venetvs
Totivs Orbisetlndie Pereg rater Primus." Its history unfortunately
cannot be traced, but I believe it came from a collection at
Urbino. A marble statue was erected in his honour by a family
at Venice in the 17th century, and is still to be seen in the
Palazzo Morosini-Gattemburg in the Campo S. Stefano in that
city. The medallion portrait on the wall of the Sala dello Scudo
in the ducal palace, and which was engraved in Bettoni's
" Collection of Portraits of Illustrious Italians," is a work of
imagination painted by Francesco Griselini in 1761.* From
this, however, was taken the medal by Fabris, which was struck
in 1847 in honour of the last meeting of the Italian Congresso
Scientifico ; and from the medal again is copied, I believe, the
elegant woodcut which adorns the introduction to M. Pauthier's
ti Lazari, xxxi.
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s. Lorenzo as it was in the 15th century.
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