Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 36
An inventory of the goods contained in a chest of the home of a commercial broker named Bartolomeo Cavatia. It was transported from Sicily and arrived in the ship of the merchant named Francesco de Becallo, the son-in-law of Bartolomeo to be consigned in Genoa by the nobleman Carlo Lomellini. Carlo consigned the goods to a man named Guglielmo Rau, who requested the inventory.
The ship patronized by Francesco de Becallo
The house inhabited by Bartolomeo Cavatia
the home of the broker Bartolomeo Cavatia (exact house not known)
Genoa, the home of the broker Bartolomeo Catavia (approximate area)
Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 38
The recognition of debt incurred by a certain Niccolò de Airolo and his son Giovanni, inhabitants of the village of Borzollo. The brothers acknowledge a debt of 42 lire and 10 soldi to Caterina Gattilusio, the wife of Antoniotto Doria, for their purchase of 33 heads of cattle. They agree to pay half the debt by Michaelmas (that is, by 29 September 1453) and the remaining half by Easter of 1454 (that is, by 21 April 1454). The contract was extracted.
The workplace of the notary Tommaso Duracino
Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 85
This is an update to an earlier arbitration sentence made on 21 June 1453 and recorded by Tommaso Duracino relating to a dispute between Meliaduce and Pietro Usodimare for payments related to the income from shares of San Giorgio. The arbitrators order that Meliaduce pay Pietro 44 Genoese lire and that Pietro transfer income in shares of San Giorgio valued at 44 Genoese lire to Meliaduce. The arbitrators also declare that Pietro must desist from his previous claim of 7 pounds and 16 soldi of Genoese currency against Meliaduce. The contract was extracted.
income (in lire) of shares in the Casa di San Giorgio
Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 154
An acquittal of debt by Caterina Xabe, the wife of the deceased Giacomo Tatardo, from Alessandria, issued to her procurator Donato Bondenario, for the amount of 80 Genoese lire. Donato was instructed to pay the 80 lire to Agostino Frascaria for a previous debt owed and had been provided with 60 lire and two shares in the Casa di San Giorgio by Caterina arrange payment. The contract was extracted.
The workshop of the cloth merchant Agostino Frascaria
Tommaso Duracino, filza 5, nr. 96 (formerly nr. 570)
This document is an agreement of service. A certain Giannetto de Lacu agrees to work in the workshop of the woolworker named Battista de Ianello for a period of six years in order to learn the art of wool working. Battista is fourteen years of age and is represented in the contract by his brother Lanfranco de Lacu. Battista agrees to house, clothe, and provide food for Giannetto during the term of the contract.
The workshop of the metal worker Michele de Ianello
The Portuguese merchants named João de Medina and Bartolomeu Gonsales, patrons of a ship stationed at the port of Genoa, borrow 160 gold ducats from the Florentine merchant named Giacomo de Celle. The loan has a term of four months.
Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 79
The merchant from Barcelona named Juan Ros sells a caravelle named Santa Maria e San Giovanni Battista to a certain Giacomo de Gaeta, for 400 Genoese lire. The sale is made with the consent of the former patron Juan do Castelo. The contract notes that Juan had purchased the vessel during the previous year from a certain Bartolomeo Squarciafico.
The ship named Santa Maria e San Giovanni Battista
Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series I, nr. 26
The woman named Maria Savignone, who is widow of the deceased Melchiorre di Negro, and Gaspare di Negro, her son, promises the dowry of her daughter Luchina di Negro. Luchina is the spouse of the commercial broker named Battista de Murchio. The contract is made with the consent of the noblemen named Marco Calvo and Giovanni Piccamiglio.
Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series I, nr. 69
A woman named Maria de Byach, described as being from the Crimean Peninusla (partium Sclavonie) enters into an agreement with the physician named Battista Bonivento to work as a household servant for ten years. Maria will be paid a salary of 14 Genoese ducats. It is likely the case that Maria, or even her father Giacomo, was once an enslaved individual. The contract also states that Maria was brought to Genoa from the Crimean region by the merchant Antonio de Lancia.
The workshop of the barber Guglielmo de Lancia
The house inhabited by Battista Bonivento
See partial transcript in Luigi Tria, La schiavitù in Liguria: ricerche e documenti (Genova: Società ligure di storia patria, 1947), doc. LVIII.
Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series II, nr. 65
The underwriter named Goffredo Spinola insures the goods transported by Giovanni de Turrilia from Cadiz and the Guadalquivir River to Genoa for 50 Genoese florins on the vessel of the nobleman named Leonello Ittaliano.
Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series II, nr. 68
The notary named Bartolomeo de Framura acknowledges a debt of 186 lire and 15 soldi of Genoese currency, to be paid in income from shares in the Casa di San Giorgio, to a certain Merualdo Grimaldi, for the receipt of 64 cantares and 46 rolls of lead. Bartolomeo agrees to pay the debt by 15 July 1456.
An agreement made in Chios, on the date of January 29, 1459, between, on the one hand, the two owners of a ship that had anchored in its port named Maurizio Cattaneo and Tobia Lomellini, and, on the other hand, several Islamic merchants ("infrascripta mauri mercatores et habents raubam et merces in ipsa nave"): nine men from Tripoli, five from Tunis, two from Granada and two from Fez. These itinerant merchants contest the sums demanded for their freight and it is agreed, after a long discussion and the intervention of an expert, that they will have to pay 4.75 ducats of Chios for each bag of linen transported from Alexandria to Chios; for the other products, the freight rate is also reduced.
Historic Map of Tripoli by Piri Reis (1500)
Domenico de Algario, filza 1, series I, nr. 16
The lord of Mytilene named Domenico Gattilusio appoints the procurators named Simone and Giovanni Giustiniani to arrange the marriage and dowry for his sister Agnese Gattilusio. This was done according to the instructions provided in the testament of the deceased Dorino Gattilusio, the father of Domenico and Agnese. The proposed bridegroom of Agnese is the eldest son of the late lord of Faenza and the contract specifies a dowry of gold, silver, and jewelry valued at a maximum of 10 Genoese lire.