These are people whose primary work is to repair or refinish shoes, boots, and other footwear, and other items such as handbags, luggage, and belts made from the materials commonly used in shoemaking and repair, such as leather, canvas, and plastic. For those who make and sometimes also design footwear as well as repair it, see "shoemakers."
Cola Gobita was a formerly enslaved man active in Siena during the late fifteenth century. He married a formerly enslaved woman from the Canary Islands named Caterina de Salè and entered with her into a fifteeen-year service contract in Siena during the autumn of 1495. He was described as "ex partibus indianis" which, at this time, probably referred to the regions south and east of the Caspian Sea.
The commenda was a medieval contract which developed in Italy around the thirteenth century, and was an early form of limited partnership. The commenda was an agreement between an investing partner and a traveling partner to conduct a commercial enterprise, usually overseas.
Government officials in charge of a department or bureau of the public service. The term may also refer to government representatives in a district, province, or other unit, often having both administrative and judicial duties and powers.
