For the Diplomatic Codex Poliano: A Memorable Judgment (Venice, 13 July 1366)
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This essay publishes and comments on the decision issued by the judges of the Procurator of Venice on 13 July 1366, a document that will be part of the forthcoming Codice Diplomatico Poliano edited by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice). The judges condemned the Procurators of St. Mark’s, executors of the will of Marco Bragadin (who died in Candia in 1360), to pay his wife Fantina, Marco Polo’s eldest daughter, 80 lire of grossi (800 ducats) considering that Bragadin had misappropriated the third of the movable property due to his wife as co-heir – with her sisters Bellela and Moreta – of her father Marco the Traveller. The court notary, Fantino Rizzo, included in the text of the sentence a most faithful copy of the inventory of the goods found in Marco Polo’s house, drawn up by Marco Bragadin shortly after his father-in-law’s death, which occurred on the 8th or 9th of January 1324: Bragadin’s inventory is famous because it has many elements in common with the Milione (or Devisament dou monde), the celebrated book written in 1298 by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa, both prisoners in Genua.
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