Serravalle is a small settlement currenlty located within the commune of Ortonovo, Liguria. It was under Genoese dominion during the late medieval and early modern period.
Contracts are documents, enforceable by law, embodying agreements between two or more competent parties to do or not to do something, and specifying the terms and conditions of the agreement.
Refers to those who prepare food for consumption, especially but not exclusively by the use of heat. Includes those who prepare meals and dishes in a private home, public eating place, or institution.
These are persons who make or repair wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, such as casks, buckets, tubs. Also shipboard artisans who repair casks and other containers.
The commune of Copa was a colony in the Black Sea region that was under Genoese dominion from the early fourteenth century until its capture by the Ottomans in 1475. It is the current city of Anapa in Russia.
These were people who, historically, specialized as harvesters of coral who brought raw coral to workshops where it would be processed in a variety of ways to sell as jewelry or for other uses in a global coral trade centered in Italy. In the late Medieval and early modern Mediterranean this was a specific occupation, often with its own guild (in places such as Genoa).
The commune of Coreglia was part of the Republic of Genoa during the late medieval and early modern era. The name was changed to Coreglia Ligure in 1888.
Corradina Doria was a slaveholder who was active in the Mediterranean during the second half of the fifteenth century. She was also referred to by the name Cassandra.
