= Maria Polo; (2) Febo, Captain at Padua;
(3) Zaccaria, Senator; (4) Domenico, Procurator of St. Mark's; (5)
Marc' Antonio, Doge (_Cappellari_, _Campidoglio Veneto_, MS. St.
Mark's Lib.).

Marc' Antonio _nolebat ducari_ and after election desired to renounce.
His friends persuaded him to retain office, but he lived scarcely a
year after. (_Cicogna_, IV. 566.) [See p. 8.]

[37] In Appendix B will be found tabulated all the facts that seem to be
positively ascertained as to the Polo genealogies.

In the Venetian archives occurs a procuration executed by the Doge in
favour of the _Nobilis Vir_ SER MARCO PAULO that he may present
himself before the king of Sicily; under date, Venice 9th November,
1342. And some years later we have in the Sicilian Archives an order
by King Lewis of Sicily, directed to the Maestri Procuratori of
Messina, which grants to MARCO POLO of Venice, on account of services
rendered to the king's court, the privilege of free import and export
at the port of Messina, without payment of customs of goods to the
amount annually of 20 ounces. Dated in Catania 13th January, 1346
(1347?).

For the former notice I am indebted to the courtesy of Signor B.
Cecchetti of the Venetian Archives, who cites it as "transcribed in
the _Commemor._ IV. p. 5"; for the latter to that of the Abate Carini
of the _Reale Archivio_ at Palermo; it is in _Archivio della Regia
Cancellaria_ 1343-1357, f. 58.

The mission of this MARCO POLO is mentioned also in a rescript of the
Sicilian king Peter II., dated Messina, 14th November, 1340, in
reference to certain claims of Venice, about which the said Marco
appeared as the Doge's ambassador. This is printed in F. TESTA, _De
Vita et Rebus Gestis Federici II., Siciliae Regis_, Panormi, 1775, pp.
267 seqq. The Sicilian Antiquary Rosario Gregorio identifies the Envoy
with our Marco, dead long before. (See _Opere scelte del Canon Ros.
Gregorio_, Palermo, 1845, 3za ediz., p. 352.)

It is possible that this Marco, who from the latter notice seems to
have been engaged in mercantile affairs, may have been the Marcolino
above mentioned, but it is perhaps on the whole more probable that
this _nobilis vir_ is the Marco spoken of in the note at p. 74.

[38] _La Collezione del Doge Marin Faliero e i Tesori di Marco Polo_,
pp. 98-103. I have seen this art