Gaspare Gentile was a Genoese merchant active during the fifteenth century. He was born as Gaspare Falamonica and assumed the Gentile surname after being admitted into their albergo in the late 1450s.
Caponago is a comune in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 12 kilometres northeast of Milan. It was under Milanese dominion during the late medieval and early modern era.
In the medieval and early modern era, this refers to a person who is a teacher of arithmetic teachers, a specialized form of the teaching profession dedicated to teaching the fundamentals of arithmetic to people aspiring to be merchants. This includes the fundamentals of using an abacus.
The slaveholder named Pellegro de Cancio sells an enslaved Russian child named Netasia, who is approximatley 12 years of age, to a teacher of arithmetic named Luca de Nigris, for 135 Genoese lire.