Cristoforo de Franchi was a Genoese merchant who was active in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was born named Cristoforo Tonso and assumed the de Franchi surname after being admitted into their albergo in 1453.
The slaveholder and notary named Alberto de Paverio sells an enslaved Tatar woman named Margarita to the prior of the monastery of Santi Giacomo e Filippo named Manfreda de Opiciis, under the condition that she can only leave the monastery in case of war or in the case that she gets married.
The slaveholder named Lorenzo de Podio sells an enslaved Russian woman named Caterina to a certain Antonio de Gaetano, for 155 lire and 16 soldi of Genoese currency.
This contract relates the escape of an enslaved Russian named Giorgio, who is approximately 22 years of age, from the slaveholder Giuliano Colombano, and who had taken refuge with the bishop of Tortosa.
