. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . alled of the 500 gods, there is a foreignfigure which from the name attached had been supposed to represent Marco Polo !From what I have heard from Mr. Wylie, a very competent authority, this isnonsense. The temple contains 500 figures of Arhans or Buddhist saints, and one ofthese attracts attention from having a hat like a sailors straw hat. Mr. Wylie hadnot remarked the name. [A model of this figure was exhibited at Venice at theinternational Geographical Congress, in 1881. I give a reproduction of
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . alled of the 500 gods, there is a foreignfigure which from the name attached had been supposed to represent Marco Polo !From what I have heard from Mr. Wylie, a very competent authority, this isnonsense. The temple contains 500 figures of Arhans or Buddhist saints, and one ofthese attracts attention from having a hat like a sailors straw hat. Mr. Wylie hadnot remarked the name. [A model of this figure was exhibited at Venice at theinternational Geographical Congress, in 1881. I give a reproduction of this figureand of the Temple of 500 Genii {Fa Rum Sze) at Canton, from drawings by FelixRegamey made after photographs sent to me by my late friend, M. Camille ImbauhHuart, French Consul at Canton.—H. C] t These documents are noted in Appendix C, Nos. 9-12, 14, 17, 18. X I can find no Ranuzzo Dolfino among the Venetian genealogies, but severalRenters. And I suspect Ranuzzo may be a form of the latter name. § Capfellari (see p. 77, X) under Bragadino. I| Ibid, and Gallicciolli, II. Mosaic Portrait of Marco Polo at Genoa. [ To face p. ~6. LAST NOTICES OF THE FAMILY 77 In March, 1328, Marco Polo, called Marcolino, of St. JohnChrysostom (see p. 66), represents before the Domini Advo-cators of the Republic that certain imprestita that had belongedto the late Maffeo Polo the Elder, had been alienated and trans-ferred in May, 1318, by the late Marco Polo of St. John Chry-sostom and since his death by his heirs, without regard to therights of the said Marcolino, to whom the said Messer Maffeohad bequeathed 1000 lire by his will executed on 6th February,1308 { 1309). The Advocatores find that the transfer wasto that extent unjust and improper, and they order that to thesame extent it should be revoked and annulled. Two monthslater the Lady Donata makes rather an unpleasant figure beforethe Council of Forty. It would seem that on the claim ofMesser Bertuccio Quirino a mandat
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