Polo Zuliani
Polo Zuliani | |
|---|---|
Duke of Candia | |
| In office 1382–1382 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14th century |
| Died | after 1410[1] |
Paolo "Polo" Zuliani
Biography
Polo Zuliani was born into the Zuliani family, a Venetian patrician family. He is recorded in the 1379 estimo of the comune together with sier Franscesco Zulian. He is said to have been from Santa Fosca (Cannaregio), which was the historical abode of the Zuliani.[1][4]
Zuliani was a very prominent (notissimo
In 1410, Zuliani was elected Procurator of Saint Mark. His nephew (or grandson) Andrea was an author and translator. Andrea translated Cassius Dio into Latin, and left several orations, for which he was praised by Flavio Biondo in his Italia illustrata (Italy Illuminated).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Curiosità veneziane ovvero Origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia di Venezia Volume 2. Cecchini; Austrian National Library. 1863. p. 317.
- ^ a b della Croce, Ireneo (1698). Historia Antica, e Moderna: Sacra, e Profana, della città di Trieste, celebre colonia de'Cittadini Romani. Con la notitia di molt'arcani d'antichità, prerogative di nobiltà e gesti d'huomini illustri ... mutationi de riti, e dominj sin'à quest'anno 1698, etc. G. Albrizzi; Lyon Public Library (Bibliothèque jésuite des Fontaines). p. 690.
- ^ a b della Croce, Ireneo (1698). Historia antica, e moderna, sacra e profana della città di Trieste. A. Forni; University of Chicago. p. 690.
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- ^ Antonio Pasini; Bartolomeo Cecchetti; Camillo Boito; Emile Molinier; Ferdinando Ongania; Frederick Home Rosenberg; William Scott (1888). La basilica di San Marco in Venezia illustrata nella storia e nell' arte da scrittori veneziani sotto la direzione di Camillo Boito Volume 6, Part 1. F. Ongania. p. 35.
- ^ Tassini, Giuseppe (1915). Curiosità veneziane. Giusto Fuga. p. 723.
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