Identifier: bookofsermarcopo00polo (find matches)
Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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^N * LAST NOTICES OF THE FAMILY 75 There is no portrait of Marco Polo in existence with any claimto authenticity. The quaint figure which we give in the Biblio-graphy, vol. ii. p. 555, extracted from the earliest printed editionof his book, can certainly make no such pretension. The oldestone after this is probably a picture in the collection of MonsignorBadia at Rome, of which I am now able, by the owners courtesy,to give a copy. It is set down in the catalogue to Titian, butis probably a work of 1600, or thereabouts, to which the aspectand costume belong. It is inscribed Marcus Polvs VenetvsTotivs Or bis et Indie Peregratcr Primus Its history unfortunatelycannot be traced, but I believe it came from a collection at
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S. Lorenzo as it was in the 15th century. Urbino. A marble statue was erected in his honour by a familyat Venice in the 17th century, and is still to be seen in thePalazzo Morosini-Gattemburg in the Campo S. Stefano in thatcity. The medallion portrait on the wall of the Saladello Scudoin the ducal palace, and which was engraved in Bettonis Collection of Portraits of Illustrious Italians, is a work ofimagination painted by Francesco Griselini in 1761.* FYomthis, however, was taken the medal by Fabris, which was struckin 1847 in honour of the last meeting of the Italian CongressoScientifico ; and from the medal again is copied, I believe, theelegant woodcut which adorns the introduction to M. Pauthiers * Lazari, xxxi. VOL. I. VI 2 76 INTRODUCTION edition, though without any information as to its history. Ahandsome bust, by Augusto Gamba, has lately been placedamong the illustrious Venetians in the inner arcade of the DucalPalace.* There is also a mosaic portrait of Polo, opposite thesim

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