The slaveholder and silk merchant named Giacomo de Vegetis leases out an enslaved Circassian woman named Catalina, who is approximately 24 years of age, to a nobleman named Tobia Pinelli, for a term of 3 years and total payment of 60 Genoese lire. The lease is for the purpose of wet nursing. Giacomo is represented in the contract by the silk spinner named Viceto de Carmagnola who serves as his representative. If at any time during the lease the enslaved Catalina is unable to provide sufficient nursing, then she can be returned and the amount for the remaining period returned to Tobia. Tobia also lends Viceto another 20 Genoese lire as part of the contract.
The slaveholder named Anfreone Centurione issues a declaration protesting against the marriage of two enslaved persons that he is holding—an enslaved man Giacobino and an enslaved woman Margarita—saying that he did not consent to their marriage.
The slaveholder and cheesemaker named Michele de Turrilia leases an enslaved Circassian woman named Maddalena, who is approximately 29 years of age, to a certain Taddeo de Marini for a term of one year.
The slaveholder and nun named Ginevra Macia, treasurer of the Monastery of San Sepolcro di Sampierdarena, sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Maddalena, who is approximately 28 years of age, to a certain Acelino Spinola, for 170 Genoese lire. The purchase is made on trial, and as such, Maddalena would be returned to the monastery six days later.
The slaveholder named Battista de Sancto Nazario leases out an enslaved Circassian woman named Marta, for a term of three years and payment of 22 Genoese lire per year. The contract is referenced in a later renunciation recorded by Andrea Testa but is not contained in the archived items of Lazzaro Raggio and is likely lost. Bernardo provided a measure of fustian cloth valued at 11 Genoese lire as a partial payment for the lease.
Lazzaro Valerio was a slaveholder from Albenga who worked as a barrel-maker and was an inhabitant of Genoa. He was active during the middle of the fifteenth century.
Pure metallic element having symbol Pb and atomic number 82; soft, dense ductile metal of a dull gray color, shiny when freshly cut, occuring naturally most often as a sulfide in the mineral galena. Other lead minerals include anglesite (lead sulfate) and cerussite (lead carbonate). Native metallic lead was found and used from about 3600-2600 BCE when the technique for obtaining lead from roasting the sulfide ore (galena) was discovered. Lead was used to make small cast items such as coins and statuettes, plumbing pipes, spires, statues, cisterns, gargoyles, pigments (lead white, litharge, orange mineral, etc.), as a component in pottery glazes, for roofing, flashing, stained glass windows, as a soft solder, and as radiation shielding.
The skin or hide of an animal that has been tanned to render it resistant to putrefication and relatively soft and flexible when dry. For composite material made from scrap leather pieces, use "maril."
A person described as a lector is someone who works as a reader, usually a person in a minor order who was responsible for reading aloud from the scriptures during worship.
