There remains to be mentioned a MARCO POLO, member of the Greater Council, chosen Auditor Sententiarum, 7th March, 1350, and named among the electors of the Doges Marino Faliero (1354) and Giovanni Gradenigo (1355).  The same person appears to have been sent as Provveditore to Dalmatia in 1355.  As yet it is doubtful to what family he belonged, and it is possible that he may have belonged to our traveller’s branch, and have continued that branch according to the tradition.  But I suspect that he is identical with the Marco, brother of Nicolo Polo of S. Geremia, mentioned above, under 1348. (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.