Slaveholders in the Mediterranean world, 1348–1528

Abraino de Lecho

Abraino de Lecho was a Genoese citizen and slaveholder active during the middle of the fifteenth century.

Abramo Casatiano

Abramo Casatiano was a Jewish slaveholder who was active in the eastern Mediterranean during the second half of the fourteenth century.

Accellino Cicala

Accellino Cicala was a slaveholder and citizen of Genoa who was active during the first half of the fifteenth century.

Accellino Gentile

Accellino Gentile was a slaveholder and merchant from Genoa who was active in the eastern Mediterranean during the first half of the fifteenth century.

Accellino Spinola

Accellino Spinola was a slaveholder and citizen of Genoa who was active during the fifteenth century.

Accellino Vivaldi

Accellino Vivaldi was a slaveholder and citizen of Genoa who was active in the second half of the fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. The sources indicate that Accellino died in 1508.

Adamo Berchoano

Adamo Berchoano was a slaveholder who was active during the early fifteenth century.

Adamo de Ponte

Adamo de Ponte was a slaveholder, cutler, and citizen of Genoa who was active during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

Adriano Scorza

Adriano Scorza was a slaveholder from Voltaggio and citizen of Genoa who was active during the first half of the fifteenth century.

Agostino Botto

Agostino Botto was a slaveholder, apothecary, and citizen of Genoa who was active during the middle of the fifteenth century.

Agostino Brusaca

Agostino Caffarotto

Agostino Carrega

Agostino Carrega was a Genoese wool merchant and slaveholder active during the first half of the fifteenth century.

Agostino Cattaneo

Agostino Cattaneo was a slaveholder and citizen of the Republic of Genoa active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. The son of Catteneo de Cattaneis and born before 1460, he emerged as a prominent nobleman of the Ghibelline faction and a recurrent magistrate. First recorded as anziano in 1485, he served in 1487 simultaneously as sindicatore and anziano, combining fiscal-judicial oversight with membership in the senior governing council. Over the following decades he was repeatedly elected anziano (1507, 1510, 1512, 1513, 1519), acted as an elector, and sat several times on the Balia (1514, 1516, 1521), the extraordinary commission charged with matters of state security and high policy. He also occupied key financial and administrative posts: officiale di Misericordia, procuratore del comune and consultant on cose importanti in 1515, and in 1525 he was both a console di Ragione and an officiale di Mare, linking him to fiscal adjudication and maritime governance. In 1511 he was dispatched as ambassador to the Duchy of Milan, and in 1517 was sent "alla Christianissima" on behalf of Ovada, reflecting Genoa’s diplomatic engagement with the French crown. According to the sixteenth-century chronicler Agostino Giustiniani, his house was sacked by the Popolo during an uprising in the early 1500s, illustrating the factional tensions surrounding his prominence. He was buried in the church of Santa Maria di Castello, a mark of established civic status. In 1492 he purchased an enslaved, baptized Muslim child named Lucia from Francesco Spinola, further attesting to his participation in Genoa’s Mediterranean slaveholding economy.

Agostino Centurione

Agostino de Andoria

Agostino de Camulio

Agostino de Cazerio

Agostino de Facio

Agostino de Lacu

Agostino de Mari

Agostino de Pinu

Agostino de Pinu was a slaveholder and citizen of Genoa who was active during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

Agostino de Ripalta

Agostino de Ripalta was a slaveholder, draper, and citizen of Genoa who was active during the first half of the fifteenth century.

Agostino de Rocheta

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