. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . Scene of the Battle of Curzola. achievement. + Malik al Mansur, the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt, * For the funeral, a MS. of Cibo Recco quoted by Jacopo Doria in La Chiesa diSan Matteo descnUa, etc., Genova, i860, p. 26. For the date of arrival the poem so often quoted :— De Oitover^ a zoia, a seze di Lo nostro ostel, con gran festaEn nostro potto, a or di sestaDomine De restitui. f S. Matteo was built by Martin Doria in 1125, but pulled down and rebuilt bythe family in a slightly different position in 1
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . Scene of the Battle of Curzola. achievement. + Malik al Mansur, the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt, * For the funeral, a MS. of Cibo Recco quoted by Jacopo Doria in La Chiesa diSan Matteo descnUa, etc., Genova, i860, p. 26. For the date of arrival the poem so often quoted :— De Oitover^ a zoia, a seze di Lo nostro ostel, con gran festaEn nostro potto, a or di sestaDomine De restitui. f S. Matteo was built by Martin Doria in 1125, but pulled down and rebuilt bythe family in a slightly different position in 1278. On this occasion is recorded aremarkable anticipation of the feats of American engineering: As there was anancient and very fine picture of Christ upon the apse of the Church, it was thought agreat pity that so fine a work should be destroyed. And so they contrived aningenious method by which the apse bodily was transported without injury, pictureand all, for a distance of 25 ells, and firmly set upon the foundations where it nowexists. {Jacopo de Varagincm Muratori, vol. ix. 36.). Church of San Matteo, Genoa. [To face p. SO. CAPTIVITY OF MARCO POLO 5/ as an enemy of Venice, sent a complimentary letter to Doriaaccompanied by costly presents.* The latter died at Savona 17th October, 1323, a few monthsbefore the most illustrious of his prisoners, and his bones werelaid in a sarcophagus which may still be seen forming the sill ofone of the windows of S. Matteo (on the right as you enter).Over this sarcophagus stood the Bust of Lamba till 1797, whenthe mob of Genoa, in idiotic imitation of the French proceedingsof that age, threw it clown. All of Lambas six sons had foughtwith him at Meloria. In 1291 one of them, Tedisio, went forthinto the Atlantic in company with Ugolino Vivaldi on a voyageof discovery, and never returned. Through Caesar, the youngest,this branch of the Family still survives, bearing the distinctivesurname of Lamba-Doria.\ As to the treatment of the prison
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