f them do more or less confound
with our Polos of S. Giovanni Grisostomo, members of the other Polo Family
of S. Geremia. It will help to disentangle the subject if we put down what
is ascertained regarding the S. Geremia family.

To the latter with tolerable certainty belonged the following:--

1302. MARCO Polo of Cannareggio, see vol. i. pp. 64-67. (The Church
of S. Geremia stands on the canal called Cannareggio.)

Already in 1224, we find a Marco Polo of S. Geremia and Cannareggio.
(See _Liber Plegiorum_, published with _Archivio Veneto_, 1872 pp.
32, 36).

1319. (Bianca, widow of GIOVANNI Polo?)[1]

1332. 24th March. Concession, apparently of some privilege in connection
with the State Lake in San Basilio, to DONATO and HERMORAO
(= Hermolaus or Almoro) Paulo (Document partially illegible).[2]

1333. 23rd October. Will of Marchesina Corner, wife of Marino Gradenigo of
S. Apollinare, who chooses for her executors "my mother Dona
Fiordelisa Cornaro, and my uncle (_Barba_) Ser Marco Polo."[3]
Another extract apparently of the same will mentions "_mia cusina_
MARIA Polo," and "_mio cusin_ MARCO Polo" three times.[4]

1349. MARINO Polo and Brothers.[5]

1348. About this time died NICOLO Polo of S. Geremia,[6] who seems to have
been a Member of the Great Council.[7] He had a brother MARCO, and
this Marco had a daughter AGNESINA. Nicolo also leaves a sister
BARBARA (a nun), a son GIOVANNINO (apparently illegitimate[7]), of
age in 1351,[6] a nephew GHERARDO, and a niece FILIPPA,[6] Abbess
of Sta. Catarina in Mazzorbo.

The executors of Nicolo are GIOVANNI and DONATO Polo.[6] We have not
their relationship stated.

DONATO must have been the richest Polo we hear of, for in the Estimo
or forced Loan of 1379 for the Genoese War, he is assessed at 23,000
_Lire_.[8] A history of that war also states that he ("Donado Polo
del Canareggio") presented the Government with 1000 ducats, besides
maintaining in arms himself, his son, and seven others.[9] Under
1388 we find Donato still living, and mention of CATARUZZA, d. of
Donato:[10] and under 1390 of Elena, widow of Donato.[10]

The Testamentary Papers of Nicolo also speak of GIACOMO [or Jacopo]
Polo. He is down in the _Estimo_ of 1379 for 1000 _Lire_;[11] and
in 1371 an inscription in Cicogna shows him establishing