has title

Antonio Fazio, filza 5, series I, nr. 212

has type

service agreement contracts

recognition of debt contracts

was enacted by

Antonio de Facio

has date of enactment

August 10, 1437

has description

The formerly enslaved woman named Maddalena agrees to work as a servant to Luchina Castagna, a nun in the monastery of Sant'Agata de Ponte in the Bisagno Valley, for a term of three years to repay a debt to a baker named Giovanni, known as Fonte Aghuso, who had arranged to pay the slaveholder Francesco Spinola secure her freedom. Luchina agrees to pay Giovanni the sum of 19 Genoese lire for the three year term. The contracts stipulates that if Maddalena can remit the 19 lire before the end of the three-year term then she will be released from service, and if she serves at least one year, then she can be released from service by paying a proportional amount of the debt. The nature of the contract suggests that Giovanni had agreed to pay Francesco 16 lire for the manumission of Maddalena and, acting as her custodian, arranged for her service in the monastery for which he charged an extra 3 lire for expenses. There may have also been a conjugal relationship between Giovanni and Maddalena.

is part of archival item

Notai antichi 579

has named party initiating agreement

Luchina Castagna

has named party accepting agreement

Maddalena

has named guarantor

Bartolomeo de Campora

Giacomo de Boliasco

has additional named participant

Francesco Spinola

Giovanni detto Fonte Aghuso

has reference to place

The Monastery of Sant'Agata del Ponte

The district (compagna) of Soziglia

has place of enactement

The Monastery of Sant'Agata del Ponte

has named witness

Leonardo de Facio

Domenico de Lexeis

has rights holder

Archivio di stato di Genova

has unique identifier

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