Networks of slaveholding and enslavement in the Genoese Mediterranean, 1348–1528

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• Giovanni de Allegro, register 3, 1408–1428, fol. 277r

  The slaveholder from Pisa named Niccolò Asoharda sells an enslaved Russian woman named Margarita, who is approximately 24 years of age, to a person from Alessandria named Giacomo Boide, for 118 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Allegro, register 3, 1408–1428, fol. 301r

  The slaveholder named Giacomo de Prato sells an enslaved Russian woman named Maria, who is approximately 26 years of age, to a merchant from Mallorca named Pedro Gaville, for 110 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Allegro, register 3, 1408–1428, fol. 322r

  The slaveholder named Domenico de Loreto sells an enslaved Russian woman named Maria, who is approximately 25 years old, to a merchant from Mallorca named Pedro Gaville, for 110 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Allegro, register 3, 1408–1428, fol. 84r

  The slaveholder named Niccolò de Iudice sells an enslaved Tatar man named Michele, who is approximately 26 years of age, to a person from Corsican named Belosco de Pinu for 50 Genoese florins.
• Giovanni de Allegro, register 3, 1408–1428, fol. 96r

  The slaveholder from Savona named Nicola Zucca sells an enslaved Russian woman named Melica, who is approximately 18 years of age, to a certain Angelo de Bobbio, from Bonifacio, for 105 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Allegro, register 3, 1408–1428, fol. 99v

  The slaveholder from Savona named Nicola Zucca sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Marta, who is approximately 18 years of age, to a lawyer named Niccolò Spinola for 100 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Benedetti, filza 2, series II, nr. 91

  The slaveholder and apothecary named Niccolò de Prato sells an enslaved Albanian woman named Maria, who is approximately 28 years of age, to a certain Tommaso Grasso, for 200 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Benedetti, filza 6, nr. 674

  The slaveholder named Baldassare Negrone sells an enslaved baptized Muslim child named Bianca, who is approximately 16 years of age, to a silk merchant named Giovanni Battista de Facio, for 160 palmi of black velvet.
• Giovanni de Benedetti, filza 8, nr. 730

  The slaveholder Tommaso de Michele, who is from Ragusa and currently living in Genoa, sells an enslaved Bosnian child named Elena, who is approximately 14 years of age, to the brothers named Paolo and Bartolomeo Invrea, both of whom are silk merchants, for 300 Genoese lire. The contract specifies that Elena has her own clothing.
• Giovanni de Pignono, register 2, 1330–1380, fol. 192r

  The slaveholder and apothecary named Giovanni Nigro sells an enslaved Tatar child named Cetrolla, who is approximately 16 years of age and described as baptized, to a pelter named Giovanni Greppo, for 36 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni de Recco, filza 1, series I, nr. 22

  The slaveholder and monk named Giuliano Sclavina sells an enslaved Russian child named Margarita, who is approximately 14 years of age, to a certain Giannotto de Sancto Ambroxio, for 66 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Labaino, filza 1, nr. 106a

  The slaveholder named Giovanni de Amido sells an enslaved woman to a certain Francesco de Cabella.
• Giovanni Ognibono, register 1, 1333–1409, fol. 40r–v

  The slaveholder and tailor from Savona named Antonio Bertonasso sells an enslaved Tatar woman named Catalina, who is approximately 11 years of age, to a certain Leonardo de Carrega, for 1000 asperes of currency of Caffa.
• Giovanni Pineto, filza 12, nr. 138

  The slaveholder named Giorgio de Leone sells an enslaved Tatar child named Andrea, who is approximately 12 years of age, to a merchant from Barcelona named Bernardo Dala, for 100 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Pineto, filza 16, nr. 214 (formerly nr. 59)

  The slaveholder and notary named Giovanni de Labaino sells an enslaved child named Maddalena, who is denoted as Turkish or Tatar and who is approximately 17 years of age, to a certain Niccolò Lavagnino, from Recco, for 160 Genoese lire. The contract contains the condition that the enslaved Maddalena cannot subsequently be sold or handed over to any person from Catalonia or Sicily. The contract also states that 60 lire of the contract price be handed over in surety to the silk weaver named Emanuele de Recco.
• Giovanni Pineto, filza 6, nr. 26

  The slaveholder named Ginevra Patuccio sells an enslaved woman named Caterinetta to a notary named Francesco de Montilio, for 110 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Pineto, filza 7, nr. 16

  The slaveholder named Girolamo de Novaria, represented by the procurator named Bartolomeo de Casareto, sells an enslaved Circassian man named Giorgio, who is approximately 22 years of age, to a merchant from Mallorca named Jaime Nirondo, for 83 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Pineto, filza 7, nr. 34

  The slaveholder and lawyer named Barnaba de Goano sells an enslaved Bulgarian man named Martino, who is approximately 20 years of age, to the prior of the monastery of San Matteo, for 75 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Valdettaro, filza 1, series I, nr. 55

  The slaveholder named Francesco de Caito sells an enslaved Muslim child, who is approximately 17 years of age, to a certain Littardo de Nizza, for 105 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Valdettaro, filza 1, series I, nr. 74

  The slaveholder named Girolamo de Caro sells an enslaved Russian man named Cristiano, who is approximately 20 years of age, to a man named Raffaele Gabello, for 115 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Valdettaro, filza 1, series II, nr. 161

  The slaveholder and inn-keeper named Giovanni de Averaria sells an enslaved Russian child named Lucia, who is approximately 16 years of age, to a mercer namd Giovanni Agostino Ruffino for 160 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Valdettaro, filza 2, series II, nr. 31

  The slaveholder named Gregorio de Godano sells an enslaved Abkhazan woman named Marta, who is approximately 25 years of age, to a certain Giovanni Casella, for 160 Genoese lire.
• Giovanni Vernazza, filza 1, nr. 9

  The slaveholder named Benedetto de Labaino sells an enslaved Circassian child named Zicho, who is approximately 11 years of age, to his brother Guirardo de Labaino, for 100 Genoese lire.
• Girolamo de Uvada, filza 1, nr. 57

  The slaveholder named Tommaso Doria sells an enslaved Bosnian woman, who is approximately 21 years of age, to the beneficiaries of a certain Tommaso Piccamiglio, for 280 Genoese lire.
• Girolamo Loggia, filza 1, series I, nr. 5

  The slaveholder named Niccolò de Monelia sells an enslaved Russian woman named Caterina, who is approximately 28 years of age, to certain Pellegro de Monelia, for 200 Genoese lire.