. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ers second marriage, viz. Stephen,John, and Matthew, I do not find that any of them had children, exceptMatthew. He bad five sons and one daughter called Maria ; and she, afterthe death of her brothers without offspring, inherited in 1417 all the pro-perty of her father and her brothers. She was honourably married toMesser Azzo Trevisano of the parish of Santo Stazio in this city, andfrom her sprung the fortunate and honoured stock of the Illustrious MesserDomenico Trevisano, Procurator of St. Marks,
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ers second marriage, viz. Stephen,John, and Matthew, I do not find that any of them had children, exceptMatthew. He bad five sons and one daughter called Maria ; and she, afterthe death of her brothers without offspring, inherited in 1417 all the pro-perty of her father and her brothers. She was honourably married toMesser Azzo Trevisano of the parish of Santo Stazio in this city, andfrom her sprung the fortunate and honoured stock of the Illustrious MesserDomenico Trevisano, Procurator of St. Marks, and valorous CaptainGeneral of the Sea Forces of the Republic, whose virtue and singular goodqualities are represented with augmentation in the person of the MostIllustrious Prince Ser MarcAntonio Trevisano, his son.* Such has been the history of this noble family of the Ca Polo, whichlasted as we see till the year of our Redemption 1417, in which year diedchildless Marco Polo, the last of the five sons of Maffeo, and so it came toan end. Such be the chances and changes of human affairs !. Arms of the Ca Polo. II. Sketch of the State of the East at the time of theJourneys of the Polo Family. 9. The story of the travels of the Polo family opens in1260. Christendom had recovered from the alarm into which it had of Venice, with which I have been favoured since the cut was made, informs me fine 15th-century MS. in his possession gives the field as argent, with no bend,and the ihree birds sable with beaks gules, disposed thus *#*. * Marco Antonio Trevisano was elected Doge, 4th June, 1553, but died on the31st of May following. We do not here notice Ramusios numerous errors, which willbe corrected in the sequel. [See p. y8.~\ SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST $ been thrown some 18 years before when the Tartar cata-clysm had threatened to engulph it. The Tartars Stateofthethemselves were already becoming an object of curi- Levant-osity rather than of fear, and soon became an objec
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