(See also vol. i. p. 74.) Cappellari states
distinctly that this Marco was the father of the Lady who married Azzo
Trevisan. (See Introd. p. 78.)
We have intimated the probability that he was the Marco mentioned twice in
connection with the Court of Sicily. (See vol. i. p. 79, note.)
A later Marco Polo, in 1537, distinguished himself against the Turks in
command of a ship called the Giustiniana; forcing his way past the
enemy's batteries into the Gulf of Prevesa, and cannonading that fortress.
But he had to retire, being unsupported.
It may be added that a Francesco Paulo appears among the list of those
condemned for participation in the conspiracy of Baiamonte Tiepolo in
1310. (Dandulo in Mur. XII. 410, 490.)
[I note from the MS. of Priuli, Genealogie delle famiglie nobili di
Venesia, kept in the R'o. Archivio di Stato at Venice, some information,
pp. 4376-4378, which permit me to draw up the following Genealogy which
may throw some light on the Polos of San Geremia: -
ANDREA, of San Felice
|
+ - - - - - - -+ - - - - - - -+
| | |
Marco Nicolo Maffio
of S. Grisostomo
buried at S. Lorenzo.
|
+ - - - - - - + - - - - + - -+ - - - - - - +
| | | |
Marco Steffano Giovanni Maffio
(Milioni) |
+ - - - - - -+ - - - - + - + - - - - - -+
| | | |
Almoro of Maffio Marco Nicolo
San Geremia
|
Nicolo of San Geremia
made a Nobleman, 4th Sept. 1381
|
+ - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - +
| | |
Maffio Marco Marin
| |
Marco + 1418
Governor of Castel Vecchio,
at Verona.
Sir Henry Yule writes above (II. p. 507) that Nicolo Polo of S. Geremia
had a brother Marco, and this Marco had a daughter Agnesina. I find in
the Acts of the Notary Brutti, in the Will of Elisabetta Polo, dated 14th
March, 1350: -
BETA = MARCO POLO [MARCOLINO?]
of S. Grisostomo
|
+ - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - -+
| | |
Agnesina Christina Marina
= Nicoleto. = Michaleto in the Monastery
of S. Lorenzo.
The Maffio, son of Nicolo of S. Giov. Grisostomo, and father of Pasqua and
Fiordelisa, married probably after his will (1300) and had his four sons:
Almoro of S. Geremia, Maffio, Marco, Nicolo. Indeed, Cicogna writes
(Insc. Ven. II. p. 390): - "Non apparisce che Maffeo abbia avuto
figliuoli maschi da questo testamento [1300]; ma per altro non e cosa
assurda il credere che posteriormente a questo testamento 1300 possa avere
avuti figliuoli maschi; ed in effetto le Genealogie gliene danno quatro,
cioe Ermolao, Maffio, Marco, Nicolo. Il Ramusio anzi glien da cinque,
senza nominarli, uno de'quali Marco, e una femmina di nome Maria; e
Marco Barbaro gliene da sei, cioe Nicolo, Maria, Pietro, Donado, Marco,
Franceschino." - H.C.]
[Sig. Ab. Cav. Zanetti gives (Archivio Veneto, XVI. 1878, p. 110). See
our Int., p. 78.
MATTEO, son of MARCOLINO
|
+ - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - -+
| |
Maria? Marco
married Benedetto died at Verona
Cornaro in 1401, and in 1417, 1418, or 1425.]
Azzo Trevisan
[1] Document in Archivio of the Casa di Ricovero, Bundle
LXXVII., No.
