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 other ways, but as I have satisfied myself that they all (except perhaps this of Barbaro’s, which we see to be otherwise erroneous) confound together 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 probable, though perhaps an illegitimate one), he is the only male descendant of old Andrea of San Felice whom we can indicate as having survived Marco himself; and from a study of the links in the professed genealogies I think it not unlikely that both Marco the Castellano of Verona and Maria Trevisan belonged to the branch of S. Geremia.[37] [See vol. ii., App.  C, p. 510.]

[49. bis.—­It is interesting to note some of the reliques left by our traveller.

I. The unfortunate Doge of Venice, Marino Faliero, seems to have possessed many souvenirs of Marco Polo, and among them two manuscripts, one in the handwriting of his celebrated fellow-citizen(?), and one adorned with miniatures.  M. Julius von Schlosser has reprinted (Die aeltesten Medaillen und die Antike, Bd.  XVIII., Jahrb. d.  Kunsthist.  Samml. d.  Allerhoechsten Kaiserhauses, Vienna, 1897, pp. 42-43) from the Bulletino di arti, industrie e curiosita veneziane, III., 1880-81, p. 101,[38] the inventory of the curiosities kept in the “Red Chamber” of Marino Faliero’s palace in the Parish of the SS.  Apostles; we give the following abstract of it:—­

Anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jesu Christi 1351 deg. indictione sexta mensis aprilis.  Inuentarium rerum qui sunt in camera rubea domi habitationis clarissimi domini MARINI FALETRO de confinio SS.  Apostolorum, scriptum per me Johannem, presbiterum, dicte ecclesie.

Item alia capsaleta cum ogiis auri et argenti, inter quos unum anulum con inscriptione que dicit:  Ciuble Can Marco Polo, et unum torques cum multis animalibus Tartarorum sculptis, que res donum dedit predictus MARCUS cuidam Faletrorum.

  Item 2 capsalete de corio albo cum variis rebus auri et argenti, quas
  habuit praedictus MARCUS a Barbarorum rege.

  Item 1 ensem mirabilem, qui habet 3 enses simul, quem habuit in suis
  itineribus praedictus MARCUS.

  Item 1 tenturam de pannis indicis, quam habuit praedictus MARCUS.

  Item de itineribus MARCI praedicti liber in corio albo cum multis
  figuris.