The slaveholder named Marco Usodimare frees an enslaved Jewish woman from Tunisia named Cita. The Jewish man named Josef de Domo David arranges a payment 122 Genoese scudi to secure her freedom, which he has collected from a number of individuals. The ransom was composed as follows: 26 gold scudi paid by a bill of exchange sent from Rome by Francesco Lomellini in Rome to the Andrea Doria; 60 gold scudi paid by Rabbi Abram Salsat (who is from the Amhara Region of Ethiopia) in Naples to Raffaele Usodimare, who acts of behalf of Marco; and 38 gold scudi to be paid by Mordechai de Tunixia, the father of Cita, to Marco within four months of the date of the contract. The contract states that if Cita has converted to Christianity before being freed then the contract is void.
Stefano Sauli was a Genoese notary who was active during the first half of the sixteenth century. He was born as Stefano Carrega and assumed the Sauli surname when his family was aggregated into the Sauli albergo in 1528.
The person named as a subprior is an assistant to a prior in a monastery or priory, holding the second-highest rank within that specific community. The term can also refer to the third-in-command in a larger abbey, under the abbot/abbess and the prior.
