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People from the Italian peninsula involved in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, 15th–19th centuries. Search by name or filter by role, place, network and period.
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Cambini Francesco e Bernardo
1461–1469Owners of two enslaved African women, Isabell and Giovanna, who arrived in Livorni from Lisbon in 1461 and 1469 respectively through Giovanni Guidetti, agent of the Cambini bank in Lisbon.
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An employee of the Cambini, together with his brother Chiaro he purchased an enslaved African woman, Luza, who had come to Livorno from Lisbon through Bartolomeo Marchionni.
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Owner of an enslaved African woman named Barbera, who arrived in Livorno from Lisbon in 1461 through Giovanni Guidetti.
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Agent of the Cambini for the Pisa and Livorno branches, he was the owner of an enslaved African woman, Marta, who arrived in Livorno from Lisbon in 1461 through Giovanni Guidetti.
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Ghinetti Piero
1470In 1470 he sent an enslaved African woman to Livorno to be sold to the Cambini.
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Guardi Benedetto
1467Owner of an enslaved African woman, Barbera, who arrived in Livorno from Lisbon through Giovanni Guidetti.
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Guidetti Giovanni
1461–1467Agent of the Cambini in Lisbon, in 1461 he sent three enslaved African women and a range of goods, including hides from Ireland and silks from the Iberian Peninsula, to Livorno on the ship Santa Maria di Nazarette. The three women — Isabell, Barbera and Marta — had been baptised and were destined for domestic work. Isabell was purchased by the Cambini, Barbera by Giovanni degli Albizzi (a member of an important Florentine noble family), and Marta by Ridolfo di Ser Gabriello (a Florentine merchant who lived in Pisa and was an agent of the Cambini in Pisa and Livorno). At the end of 1464, Guidetti sent three more women aboard the caravel Santo Spirito, one of whom was purchased by Piero and Giuliano di Francesco Salviati. The following year, another woman was sent aboard the Dispensiero and purchased by Stefano Mucini, a member of a Florentine family with significant trade interests between Tuscany and Portugal. In 1467, Guidetti sent three more African women aboard the Santa Maria Nunziata. One was sold to Benedetto di Ser Francesco Guardi and the other two to Niccolò di Paradiso Mazzinghi, a Florentine merchant who lived in Pisa. In 1474, Guidetti sent two more large consignments of enslaved people to Livorno: 26 people (25 women and one man) on the Santa Maria Nunziata, and nine women on the Santa Maria Grazia. Not all of them appear to have originated in Africa, as some were described as having light skin. The 25 women were sold in Pisa and Naples, while the man and the other nine women were delivered to Lena Vettori, Guidetti's wife.
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Marchionni Bartolomeo
1470–1493Having settled in Lisbon in 1470 as agent of the Cambini bank of Florence, in 1486 he obtained from the Portuguese Crown the contract to import enslaved people from the Rio dos Escravos (Benin coast); in the same year he received from the Spanish sovereigns the licence to trade in enslaved people with Castile and Aragon. It has been calculated that between 1486 and 1493 Marchionni imported at least 1,648 of the 3,589 enslaved people who arrived in Lisbon, that is 45.9%. He then re-exported some of them to Seville (through Giannotto Berardi), to Valencia (through Cesare Barzi) and to Livorno (through Francesco Guidetti).
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Mazzinghi Niccolò
1467Owner of two enslaved African people, a woman and a girl, who arrived in Livorno from Lisbon in 1467 through Giovanni Guidetti.
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Mucini Stefano
1464He bought an enslaved African woman from Giovanni Guidetti, who had brought her to Livorno from Lisbon.
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Owners of an enslaved African woman, one of the three whom Giovanni Guidetti sent from Lisbon to Livorno on the caravel Santo Spirito at the end of 1464.
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Vanni Bartolomeo
1460–1469 (decade)An agent of the Cambini bank, from the early 1460s he took part in the importation of enslaved Black people from Lisbon to Florence. He operated in the same network as Giovanni Guidetti, who in 1461 brought to Tuscany Isabell, Barbera and Marta, destined respectively for the Cambini family, Giovanni degli Albizzi and Ridolfo di ser Gabriello.