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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
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INTRODUCTION
Respecting the further history of the family there is nothing
certain, nor can we give unhesitating faith to Ramusio's state-
ment that the last male descendant of the Polos of S. Giovanni
Grisostomo was Marco, who died Castellano of Verona in 1417
(according to others, 1418, or 1425),* and that the family
property then passed to Maria (or Anna, as she is styled in a
MS. statement furnished to me from Venice), who was married
in 1401 to Benedetto Cornaro, and again in 1414 to Azzo
Trevisan. Her descendant in the fourth generation by the latter
was Marc Antonio Trevisano,T who was chosen Doge in 1553.
Arms or the Trevisan family.
The genealogy recorded by Marco Barbaro, as drawn up
from documents by Ramusio, makes the Castellano of Verona a
grandson of our Marco by a son Maffeo, whom we may safely
pronounce not to have existed, and makes Maria the daughter of
Maffeo, Marco's brother that is to say, makes a lady marry in
1414 and have children, whose father was born in 1271 at the
very latest ! The genealogy is given in several óther ways, but
as I have satisfied myself that they all (except perhaps this of
Barbaro's, which we see to be otherwise erroneous) confound to-
gether the two distinct families of Polo of S. Geremia and Polo
of S. Giov. Grisostomo, I reserve my faith, and abstain from
presenting them. Assuming that the Marco or Marcolino Polo,
spoken of in the preceding page, was a near relation (as is
* In the Museo Civico (No. 2271 of the Cicogna collection) there is a commission addressed by the Doge.Michiel Steno in 1408, "Nobili Viro Marclio Paulo," nominating him Podestà of Arostica (a Castello of the Vicentino). This is probably the same Marco.
t The descent runs : (I) Azzo = Maria Polo ; (2) Febo, Captain at Padua ; (3) Zaccaria, Senator ; (4) Domenico, Procurator of St. Mark's ; (5) Marc' Antonio, Doge ( Cappellari, Campidoglio Veneto, MS. St. Mark's Lib. ).
Marc' Antonio nolebat ducari and after election desired to renounce. His friends persuaded him to retain office, but he lived scarcely a year after. (Cicogna, IV . 566. ) [See p. 8 ]
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