We call this worthy Rustician or Rusticiano, as the nearest probable representation in Italian form of the Rusticien of the Round-Table MSS. and the Rustacians of the old text of Polo.  But it is highly probable that his real name was Rustichello, as is suggested by the form Rustichelus in the early Latin version published by the Societe de Geographie.  The change of one liquid for another never goes for much in Italy,[18] and Rustichello might easily Gallicize himself as Rusticien.  In a very long list of Pisan officials during the Middle Ages I find several bearing the name of Rustichello or Rustichelli, but no Rusticiano or Rustigiano.[19]

Respecting him we have only to add that the peace between Genoa and Venice was speedily followed by a treaty between Genoa and Pisa.  On the 31st July, 1299, a truce for twenty-five years was signed between those two Republics.  It was a very different matter from that between Genoa and Venice, and contained much that was humiliating and detrimental to Pisa.  But it embraced the release of prisoners; and those of Meloria, reduced it is said to less than one tithe of their original number, had their liberty at last.  Among the prisoners then released no doubt Rustician was one.  But we hear of him no more.

[1] B.  Marangone, Croniche della C. di Pisa, in Rerum Ital.  Script. of
    Tartini, Florence, 1748, i. 563; Dal Borgo, Dissert. sopra
    l’Istoria Pisana, ii. 287.

[2] The list of the whole number is preserved in the Doria archives, and
    has been published by Sign.  Jacopo D’Oria.  Many of the Baptismal names
    are curious, and show how far sponsors wandered from the Church
    Calendar. Assan, Alton, Turco, Soldan seem to come of the constant
    interest in the East. Alaone, a name which remained in the family
    for several generations, I had thought certainly borrowed from the
    fierce conqueror of the Khalif (infra, p. 63).  But as one Alaone,
    present at this battle, had a son also there, he must surely have been
    christened before the fame of Hulaku could have reached Genoa. (See
    La Chiesa di S. Matteo, pp. 250, seqq.)

    In documents of the kingdom of Jerusalem there are names still more
    anomalous, e.g., Gualterius Baffumeth, Joannes Mahomet. (See Cod. 
    Dipl. del Sac.  Milit.  Ord.  Gerosol. I. 2-3, 62.)

[3] Memorial.  Potestat.  Regiens. in Muratori, viii. 1162.

[4] See Fragm.  Hist.  Pisan. in Muratori, xxiv. 651, seqq.; and
    Caffaro, id. vi. 588, 594-595.  The cut in the text represents a
    striking memorial of those Pisan Prisoners, which perhaps still
    survives, but which at any rate existed last century in a collection
    at Lucca.  It is the seal