of the Malapaga, which is now a barrack
    for Doganieri, but continued till comparatively recent times to be
    used as a civil prison.  “It is certain,” says my informant, “that men
    of fame in arms who had fallen into the power of the Genoese were
    imprisoned there, and among others is recorded the name of the
    Corsican Giudice dalla Rocca and Lord of Cinarca, who died there in
    1312;” a date so near that of Marco’s imprisonment as to give some
    interest to the hypothesis, slender as are its grounds.  Another
    Genoese, however, indicates as the scene of Marco’s captivity certain
    old prisons near the Old Arsenal, in a site still known as the Vico
    degli Schiavi. (Celesia, Dante in Liguria, 1865, p. 43.) [Was not
    the place of Polo’s captivity the basement of the Palazzo del Capitan
    del Popolo, afterwards Palazzo del Comune al Mare, where the
    Customs (Dogana) had their office, and from the 15th century the
    Casa or Palazzo di S. Giorgio?—­H.  C.]

[27] The Treaty and some subsidiary documents are printed in the Genoese
    Liber Jurium, forming a part of the Monumenta Historiae Patriae,
    published at Turin. (See Lib.  Jur. II. 344, seqq.) Muratori in his
    Annals has followed John Villani (Bk.  VIII. ch. 27) in representing
    the terms as highly unfavourable to Venice.  But for this there is no
    foundation in the documents.  And the terms are stated with substantial
    accuracy in Navagiero. (Murat.  Script. xxiii. 1011.)

[28] Paulin Paris, Les Manuscrits Francois de la Bibliotheque du Roi,
    ii. 355.

[29] Though there is no precise information as to the birth or death of
    this writer, who belonged to a noble family of Lombardy, the
    Bellingeri, he can be traced with tolerable certainty as in life in
    1289, 1320, and 1334. (See the Introduction to his Chronicle in the
    Turin Monumenta, Scriptores III.)

[30] There is another MS. of the Imago Mundi at Turin, which has been
    printed in the Monumenta.  The passage about Polo in that copy
    differs widely in wording, is much shorter, and contains no date.  But
    it relates his capture as having taken place at La Glaza, which I
    think there can be no doubt is also intended for Ayas (sometimes
    called Giazza), a place which in fact is called Glaza in three of
    the MSS. of which various readings are given in the edition of the
    Societe de Geographie (p. 535).

[31] “E per meio esse aregordenti
        De si grande scacho mato
      Correa mille duxenti
        Zonto ge novanta e quatro.”

    The Armenian Prince Hayton or Hethum has put it under 1293. (See
    Langlois, Mem. sur les Relations de Genes avec la Petite-Armenie.)