Commentary Purg XVI 46

Marco the Lombard: to the many previous attempts to identify Marco (see DDP Singleton.Purg.XVI.46) we must now add that of Giorgio Cracco (Crac.1984.1), who points out that a Venetian living in Lombardy wrote, ca. 1292, a (still unpublished) chronicle of the provinces of Venice.  He names himself simply as 'Marco' and his text contains a number of concerns and phrases that coincide with Dante's.  That Dante allows him as limited identification as he does may indicate that he felt Marco's fame was great enough that his Christian name alone was sufficient to identify him.