Fabio P. Di Vita
Greek ships in Sicily during the 18th century: health practices and
commercial relationships
1.
Introduction
The main aim of this work, conducted within the research project promoted by the
Ionian University entitled Greek Shipping History, 1700 – 1821, is to check the Greek
mercantile traffic in the main sicilian harbours between the beginning of the 18th
century and the first twenty years of the 19th century.
To find useful archival documents I have researched in the archives of Palermo and
Messina, where I have consulted the funds Suprema Deputazione Generale di Salute
Pubblica, deposited in the archive of Palermo, and Deputazione della Salute, Regia
Udienza and Consolato del Mare, conserved in the archive of Messina.
By the analisys of the documents related to the working of the maritim sanitary
system in the areas of Palermo and Messina it has been possible to check the presence
of Greek ships, getting out useful elements as the name, the type and the flag of the
ship, the name of the owner and/or the name of the captain, news about the crew, the
origin of the ship and commodities transported. These news, opportunely rielaborated,
permitted to verify, also, the sea-routes of the ships and the kind of commerce exercised
by Greeks in these areas.
It has been analyzed, also, the evolution and the way of work of the sicilian maritim
health system in the Modern Age, examining important aspects as intervention and
protection techniques, the subjects envolved in the administration of the Deputations,
the economics resources, the costs of the offered services, the maritime activities needed
to make possible operations of loading and unloading in the harbours of Sicily, and, in
general, the received treatment for the ships coming from suspected areas.
2.
The sicilian sanitary inspection system in the Modern Age
Within sanitary politics adopted by old regime States to face damages producted by
the diffusion of epidemic diseases, first of all the plague, have been realized in Italy,
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between the 14th to the 15th century, sanitary magistratures whose installation put this
country in a vangard position compared to european framework.
In this context also South Italy, although with different way and time compered to
the national framework, provided itself with permanent sanitary inspection system,
given that 1656 and 1691 for Naples and 1743 for Sicily were the principal dates for
legal production in this topic. The origin of Sopraintendenza della generale salute and
the reorganization of the pre-existent citizen sanitary Deputations are due to neapolitan
plague of 1656, while, at the end of the seventeenth-century emergency cicle,
Conversano’s plague of 1691 marks the trasformation of Deputazione della Salute from
a temporary institution linked to the birth of an emergency to a permanent one. In Sicily
the decisive element for the institution of a permanent sanitary magistrature was
Messina’s plague of 1743, which permitted the birth of Deputazione Generale della
Salute, central organism with competence in all the island and with giurisdiction over
local health Deputations.
It’s clear, therefore, that also in South Italy the epidemical waves quickened the
development of a legislation that was able to defend public health in a context of
progressive assumption from State of competences traditionally afferent to associations,
private charity and Church. Actually, since 1575 it was constituted in Sicily by Senate
of Palermo, because of a pandemia of plague that only in Messina produced 40.000
victims, a sanitary magistrature that, even if formally indipendent from viceré and with
wide giurisdiction, was in effect subjected to a state control by the Tribunale del Real
Patrimonio. Another epidemic emergency, as the terrible Messina’s plague in 1743, led
to the emanation of rules about the issue of bills of health, medical-political instructions
to be respected in plague-stricken places, regulations for the ecclesiastic government to
be practised in infected countries, privileges of the men working for the sanitary care,
following one another the proclamations about sanitary cordons, dispositions to be
observed along the coasts and in the lazarets and rules about the relationship between
central and local Deputations.
The epidemic of plague that conducted to the issuing of the above-stated
dispositions in sanitary field was determinated by the landing in the harbour of a
Genoese merchant ship from Morea, arrived in Messina in March 1743 after a call in
Patras, where the disease raged. Actually some seamen died while the ship was sailing,
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but this event was kept secret by the captain; it was also fatal the negligence of the
Messina’s sanitary deputates who admitted in the citizen lazaret the Genoese ship
although the access couldn’t be accepted because of its provenience from Levant. Died
after few days both the captain and a seaman, the ship was put under close supervision
and the viceré was informed about that. In spite of the strong oppositions from
Palermitan sanitary Deputation, which wanted to interrupt commercial relationship with
Messina, the Supremo Magistrato di Commercio, who had, since 1740, the control over
public health in Sicily, gave only the order of burning the ship and the commodities and
keeping people involved, not adopting the opportune measures to avoid the plague to
increase rapidly. The same viceré Corsini, even if on the 26th of May issued a circolar
order that forbade the landing in sicilian harbours of the ships coming from Messina,
awaited until July to issue the necessary measures to protect population from the
pandemia. The scrupulous observance of the measures of sanitary policy permitted to
Palermo to be free from the infection so that the same Carl III, recognizing the
functionality and the efficiency of Palermo’s sanitary Deputation, wanted to assign to it
the supervision of the sicilian health, making it also indipendent from all sicilian
magistratures.
The documents related to the Magistrato di Salute, the regulations and the measures
about the plague of Messina, the general statutes given to the magistrates of public
health in the Kingdom of Sicily and the instructions of the lazaret of Messina have been
published in 1749 within a collection intitled Governo Generale di Sanità del Regno di
Sicilia e Istruzioni del Lazzaretto della città di Messina.
Within this collection should be pointed out, at first, the dispositions given to the
magistrates of public health in the Kingdom of Sicily about the treatment reserved to the
ships coming from out of Kingdom. To every captain of these ships, as to each member
of the crew, should have been asked, at the arrive in whatever harbour of Sicily and by
sanitary custodian, the name, the origin, news about the journey, the load, the number
and the sanitary status of the sailors on board. Checked the conformity of acquired
answers to the bill of health of the ship, it needed to inform the chief of local sanitary
magistrature, to obtain the permit to grant pratique to the ship. Given that, the ship was
carefully examined, checking the conformity of done control with declarations given: if
positive, it was granted pratique to the ship, if negative it must have taken the necessary
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measures. In case the ship came from a place naturally suspected or so declared by the
Suprema Deputazione Generale di Salute Pubblica, it was necessary warn, without
delay, the chief of the local magistrature and put a boat to guard the ship. If occurred
any deficiency in the bill of health, the ship had to be evicted, otherwise it needed to
impose to the commodities and the crew the opportune quarantine to be spent in the
lazaret of Messina.
About the measures to eliminate the defects and the deficiencies that the bills of
health given to the ships showed in the past, it must to be underlined that if the names of
the crew and passengers in the bill of health were not distincted, the ships could have
pratique only after a seven days contumacy; the same also in the case of ships coming
from local harbours and/or having a clean and clear bill of health. To have bills of
health which can absolve this function, it was put in circulation a new model of them
and, to eliminate the inconveniences linked to the change of bills, it was ordered that it
can be done only in the place in which the journey of the ship was finished.
If a ship coming from an infected or suspected place was wrecked in whatever
sicilian coast and it was discovered the presence of corpses in the sea, they had been
buried in deep hollows, to be filled up with lime and earth, by the survivors to the
disaster. In addition to victuals and any other necessary good, it had be given to the
survivors a ship by which go away from sicilian coasts withouth any contact with local
population in the period between the shipwreck and the eviction.
In the case of the ship had be admitted to spend a contumacy period it was be
necessary to pass it in a separate and distant place not only from other ships in same
conditions but also from ships admitted to pratique. Having need of victuals this ship
have had to send its launchs, opportunely escorted by cusodians, to the land and here it
has been changed the necessary goods with requested money, taking care to dip the
money in vinegar or salt water. If the ship which was in contumacy wanted to unload its
commodities or to load other goods before the departure, it had been necessary the
licence of the health magistrature, opportunely prefaced by a positive medical opinion,
to check the commodities suspected of infection. All of these operations have to be done
always in an isolated place and far from commercial activities, in presence of an health
deputy, guardians and customs officers. Wishing to go away from a sicilian harbour, the
ship can do this at noon in summer and at dawn in winter, taking care to do this
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withouth contacts with anyone and without leaving commodities suspected of infection
on land.
Arrived a ship from an infected place, in contacts with ships from infected areas or
with crew and/or commodities from these places, it had been necessary to impose the
eviction to it, also in the case of the crew were in good health. It was also forbidden to
unload the shipment, taking care the same health magistrates to explain in the bill of
health, previously put in vinegar and scented by laurel and sulphur, the reasons of the
refusal of the pratique. In all cases the ship to be sent away could supply itself with
victuals and any other necessities.
In 1751, on the track of the two years previous sicilian publication and evidencing
an interdipendence between the two legislations, the Bourbon government of the
Kingdom of Naples passed the Istruzioni da osservarsi da’ deputati della salute di
Napoli e del Regno facing important themes as the nomination of deputies, health
practises, the working of the lazaret of Nisida, the charges for the services offered to the
ships in quarantine.
After the Restoration, precisely in June 1819, was instituted in Palermo the
Sopraintendenza generale di salute pubblica while with the following royal decrees of
the 20th of October 1819 and the 1st of January 1820 was regulated the sanitary service
in provinces, in which the control over the local deputations was entrusted to the
intendants.
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The greek mercantile traffic in the sicilian harbours between Messina’s
plague and the end of the 18th century
Relating to the period during which the plague produced tragic effects, it has been
found seven documents that certify the arrive of greek boats in Messina’s coasts. The
first, dated the 16th of June 1744, is a testimony by which the Deputazione della Salute
di Messina informed the Suprema Deputazione Generale di Salute Pubblica di Palermo
that the day 7 of the same month it has been landed on the beach of Ringo a greek
chieggia with one mast and a crew of twelve people included the owner Anastasio Coc.
In the same month of June, precisely the day 16, arrived to the Messina’s littoral, in the
place of la Grotta, two greek ships coming from Missolonghi, a place near the infected
city of Patras. Both of them were loaded with wheat, but the first one, coming from
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Missolonghi in sixteen days, had a crew of thirteen people included the captain Giorgio
Mauvrito and the second one a crew of only eleven persons and captain Demetrio. Other
two ships, coming from the same Missolonghi, landed in the 24th of June on the Riviera
del Ringo with its loads of wheat, three cases of hams and other victuals to present to
some greek merchants resided in Messina. At last it must be noticed, for the same year
1744, the finding of a memorial sent in the 13rd of August from Don Nicolò Balsamo,
senator of the city of Messina, to the Prince of Pantelleria. In this document the senator
Balsamo explain the case of the martigana named Santa Maria di Bosco that was
ejected from the harbour of Messina coming from the isle of Paxù, place suspected but
not infected. Having bought a reel included in the load of the above-said ship, Don
Nicolò turned to the Prince of Pantelleria to permit that the greek ships could have
access to this harbour.
In 1745 it has been noticed one only presence in Messina, that is the greek ship
named S. Caterina of the owner Gioan Cuccumel that, for the unfavourable
meteorogical conditions, was arrived at the beginning of October in the Riviera del
Ringo. Coming from Missolonghi in eleven days, Gioan Cuccumel said to have fifteen
seamen on board and that during his trip he was arrived in Tripoli, place in which it was
given pratique. The night of the 2nd of October this ship was ejected from the
Messina’s littoral because, even if it had a clean bill of health, it was coming from
suspected places. The same treatment in May of the following year was given to the
marticana SS.mo Crocifisso and to the Madonna di Cassopolo, the latter coming from
Cefalonia and owned by the greek Nicolò Plerinò.
In February 1762 a checcio coming from Salonika, where it loaded cotton, textile
products and other commodities destined to the harbour of Livorno, was ejected from
Lipari, where it took cover because of the weather. The ship, with a crew composed by
eleven seamen included the owner Costad. Francesco Missolongiotto, touched at
Missolonghi and Malta where arrived the 31st of January. In June of the same year it
was ordered the ejectment of the S. Michele owned by Pidaco if this ship, coming from
Giànnina with a load of weath and overcoats, had touched at any harbour of the
Kingdom.
The archival documents, useful till now to check, even if in a extremely fragmentary
way, the presence of greek ships in sicilian harbours, is more plentiful and analytic
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beginning from the eighties of the XVIII century since to the source of Suprema
Deputazione Generale di Salute Pubblica is added the documentation coming from the
local health Deputation of Messina, even if this archival fund is composed by only nine
units.
In the 16th of May 1788 it is put in quarantine in the royal lazaret of Messina the
weath unloaded from the Ottoman tartan commanded by Anagoste d’Antonio Chiose
while in July two Greek polaccas, the first one commanded by Panaita Duria coming
from Zante and the second one by Michele Cefalà from Candia, were preserved for four
days and then ejected.
In October 1789 two Greek ships, the first commanded by Pietro Verigri and the
second by Teodoro d’Antonio, were looked after and then ejected as in the following
Decembre occurred to the ship of Marco Itrioti. In 1790 there were three arrivals: in
March the Ottoman polacca of Nicola Lurcheri, coming from Patras, in July an Hellenic
ship from Salonika and in October the Greek tartan commanded by Pietro Nunifori.
In 1791 there were two trips effected by the captain Giovanni Inglese that in
September led a ship from Patras and Missolonghi and in October a polacca coming
from the same Missolonghi. The Ottoman polacca S. Giorgio commanded by Patitò
Siveri came in July from Missolonghi, while it isn’t possible to deduce the route of the
ship commanded by Lorenzo Lorcari and that one of the two polaccas commanded the
first by Zanegotti Itrari and owned the second by Stefano Canonopolo, the last watched
closely from the 12nd to the 23rd of November by the guardian Antonio d’Amico to
whom were paid three tarì everyday for the service done. In February 1792 are
simultaneously present in Messina’s waters the tartana of the captain Antonio Denitri
coming from Cefalonia and the polacca commanded by the Ottoman Greek Giovanni
Pedacco from Missolonghi. From the same city came in June the polacca S. Giorgio of
the Ottoman Greek Nicola Lurcheri that was held in custody in the 13rd, 14th and 15th
of that month and then it was escorted to the Torre del Faro; the same treatment was
reserved in the 11st and the 12nd of June to the polacca Madonna di Caligata
commandend by the Venetian Greek captain Pietro Caligà coming from Livadia,
Cefalonia and Xanthus with an annoted bill of health.
In addition to the transits in Messina’s waters during 1792 it has been noticed the
presence of a Greek ship with Ottoman flag that in the 20th of April arrived in the
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harbour of Augusta, because of the weather situation, with a load of 230 salme of weath
destined to the isle of Malta, and the arrive of the Ottoman polacca of the captain Nicola
Dimitri coming from Idra with its load of weath to Lisbon. About this ship it must be
noticed that the same Ottoman consul Don Antonino Genzardi demanded, with a
document dated 15 November, that this boat could complete its quarantine in the
harbour of Palermo to make possible to take care of a member of the crew who suffered
bones’ fractures.
In 1793, at last, there was in Messina the ship of the Greek Giovanni Inglese, while
the following year the polacca of Giovanni Pandeli, coming from Constantinople and
watched closely by Domenico Lamberti from the 22nd to the 26th of January 1794.
In addition to the ships ejected from the littoral of Messina, in the period 1789-1794,
it was permitted to some ships coming from Levant to pass the quarantine in the Royal
Lazzaret of Messina and to unload its commodities on land. Among these the Ottoman
ship of Giovanni Pedacco, the S. Demetrio of Panay Dadaria, the two tartans of Andrea
and Giorgio di Nicolò, the chirlanghiz of Anagoste di Vasili and the polacca of Ciriaco
Brusco di Demetrio.
Besides the pinco commanded by Zaffiri d’Antonio, with unknown flag and
admitted in March 1791 to pass the quarantine in the above-said lazaret, there was a
great number of Russian ships with captains of Hellenic origin, mainly coming from
Calamo, that received the same treatments (table 1).
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Greek ships and sailormen in Sicily in the first twenty years of the
nineteenth century
At the beginning of the 19th century the only presences of captains of Ellenic origin
in Messina’s coasts are those of Hals Tompasso, Tomopolo, Gerasimo Carcavallo and
Cristofalo Leondorj. About Tompasso and Tomopolo they were the captains of ships
that sailed from Livorno to Messina with its loads of indigo and Indian ink; Gerasimo
Carcavallo, instead, was wrecked in Messina’s waters with a brigantine of Jerusalem
coming from Patras. The crew, sixteen people included the captain, pass the quarantine
in the above-said city from the 18th of September to the 12nd of October 1808 but it
was exempted from the related charges because of the wreck. In May 1809 it must be
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noticed the presence in this area of the ship commanded by Cristofalo Leondorj with its
load of iron but it’s impossible to know its origin and its destination.
In the second decade of the nineteenth century it was possible to notice the amount
of the charges of quarantine and of the fees asked from the Deputazione di Salute di
Messina by the analysis of some volumes where the officers of the above-said
deputation booked names of captains, commodities, periods of quarantine and amounts
to be paid. Even if for a restricted period, it was possible therefore to shed light upon the
costs of the offered services in the treatment of the ships coming from suspected places.
From July to December 1811 passed in Messina seven boats commanded by
captains with clear Hellenic origin. It was asked to them to pay an amount included
between 5.20 and 11 onze for the charges of contumacy effected, in addition to other
sums of money for fees on commodities transported (table 2). During 1812 ten ships
with Hellenic captains spent its quarantine in Messina, between these there were twice
the names of Costantino Chiparis and Argirio di Demetrio (table 3). Also in this case it
was added to the quarantine’s charges the fees paid to the deputation on weath and rice
transported.
About the period 1813-1814 the charges for the treatments to the suspected ships
and the payments to the custodians must be noticed: 2.4 onze were paid in the 12th of
May 1813 for the guard to the gunboat of the captain Spiro Pandeli coming from Itaca
and then from Naples, 12.12 onze were paid to the three supernumerary custodians to
have held in quarantine from April to May 1814 the Albanian officers and the English
troops landed from the Ottoman brigantine commanded by captain Pandeli and 6.12
onze were paid to Raffaele Di Matteo and Litterio Gentile about sixteen days of
quarantine from the 4th to the 19th of June 1814 of the Sicilian royal schooner
commanded by Angelo Pottamiano coming from Xanthus. Between September and
November 1814 there were two landings of the English ship S. Elena commanded by
Spiridione Nosco; in the first case were paid 7.6 onze to the supernumerary custodians
that looked after the above-said boat from the 7th to the 8th of October, in the second
case Litterio Gentile received 6 onze to attend from the 3rd of October to the 1st of
November to six people landed from the English boat.
As just noticed, the Deputazione di Salute di Messina imposed to the ships landed
on the beaches controlled by it the payment of sums of money variable according to the
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length of quarantine and to the charges over commodities unloaded. In the years 18141815 it must be noticed the presence of 36 captains of Hellenic origin (tables 4 and 5)
and the landings of ships with loads of weath, cochineal, hare’s skins, camel’s hair,
wool, livestock, tobacco and Morea’s cheeses. Other incomes were caused by the
quarantine effected by one passenger and the load of the English polacca with
Spiridione Ronchi as captain from the 13rd to the 26th of June and by the quarantine
passed by one passenger and one sailorman landed respectively from the ship of the
captain Ananghiro Petrà and from the Ottoman polacca of the captain Andrea Manuni.
During these years it must be noticed, at last, the presence in Palermo’s gulf of the
Ottoman brigantine commanded by Panajotti Pascanicola, the probable arrive in
Messina of the Greek boat of the captain Domenico di Giorgio coming from Salonika
with a dirty bill of health and the entrance in Augusta’s harbour, caused by the weather
conditions, of the Russian polacca commanded by Giorgio Spanopolo coming from
Malta and directed to Messina.
For the following years the archival documents are very fragmentary, so for 1817 it
has been noticed the presence in Messina of the Ottoman brigantines S. Spiridione
commanded by Anacanosti Pajotti Castrulli and Madonna d’Idra by Giovanni Luzzumi,
the latter guarded from the 27th of March to the 10th of May. In June of the same year it
was possible also to point out that a part of the crew of the three Greek boats coming
from West landed in Fondachello where spent their quarantine.
In relation to the period 1818-1821 the methodical analysis of the registers where it
had been noted daily the landing and the departures from Palermo’s harbour permitted
to check the extreme rarity of the arrivals of Hellenic ships, since in these years only
twelve Ottoman boats arrived in this city. In January 1819 the brigantine S. Nicolò
commanded by Paolo Anarcirio, in March the brigantine Aristide of the captain Litterio
di Giovanni, between March and November four trips of the schooner Sultana
commanded by Giorgio di Giovanni Chioni. This captain come back in Palermo also in
1820, when it is noticed the presence of captains Giorgio Demetrio, Giorgio di Nicola,
Basilio di Nicola and Costantino Chiriaco.
In this period the presence of Hellenic ships is very rare also in the other sicilian
harbours: in the 28th of December 1818, with a report of the Intendente di Catania, the
Commissione di Sanità di Palermo was informed about the shipwreck in Acicastello’s
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waters of the Greek polacca La Mauritania coming from Prevesa with its load of weath;
in the following December it was also point out the approach in the isle of Lipari of a
Greek merchant ship coming from Missolonghi. In relation to the Messina’s harbour, at
last, in September 1819 three passengers landed from the Ottoman ship S. Spiridione
coming from Ithaca passed their quarantine in the city lazaret, while the following year
the ships commanded by Attanasio Glichi and Marojanni were watched closely by the
custodians Letterio Bonaventura from the 13rd to the 18th of January and Andrea La
Rosa from the 29th of February to the 11st of March.
5.
Final remarks
The risks of the diffusion of epidemic diseases represented also in South Italy a
powerful incentive to create permanent sanitary structures. In effect, the terrible
Messina’s plague in 1743 was a resolutive element to constitute in Sicily the Suprema
Deputazione Generale di Salute Pubblica, a central organ with competence on all the
isle, with jurisdiction on local Deputations and indipendent from any other royal
magistrature.
The consultation and the analysis of the documents related to the sicilian sanitary
system, turned to mediate, as all the same sanitary control organisms in the
Mediterranean Sea, between the commercial needs of the Kingdom and the interests of
the sicilian population to protect its health, permitted to reconstruct the movements of
the ships and the passengers of Hellenic origin in the harbours of the Kingdom of Sicily
between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study of the orders disciplining the
treatment to reserve to the ships coming from out of Kingdom and eliminating the
anomalies in the bills of health presented by the ships arrived in and sailed from sicilian
harbours, permitted to analyze opportunely the archival documents useful to effect a
research that presented difficulties linked both to the identification of the Greek ships
and to the fragmentariness of the consulted materials.
Beginning from the half of the eighteenth century it was checked that the arrival of
Hellenic ships on the sicilian coasts, because of its Levantine origin, led prevalently to
the ejectment from royal harbours, procedure that was often preceded by the custody of
the suspected ship to avoid any attempt to come near to the coast. Between sicilian
ports, it is the Messina’s one to point out certainly the majority of Greek ships and
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sailormen, while the transits in Palermo are few and those one in the other sicilian
harbours are very rare and often linked to the weather conditions. About the loads
transported it was checked the prevalent presence of cereals, in some cases admitted to
pass the necessary quarantine buying the opportune fees, while more sporadic are goods
as hides, textile materials and products, colouring matters, livestock, iron and
foodstuffs.
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6. Tables
Table 1
Russian war-ships which passed the quarantine in the Royal Lazaret of Messina
1790-1794
Shiptypes
Shipnames
Fregata
Shipowner
Names of
captains
Origin
Crew
-
Basilio Casimi
Calamo
120
Date
20 days in
November
1790
20 days in
November
1790
20 days in
November
1790
20 days in
November
1790
20 days in
November
1790
Corvetta
-
-
Lettieri Seguri
Calamo
42
Galeotta
-
-
Lettieri
Ricchiardopolo
Calamo
20
Galeotta
-
-
Strati Nicoforati
Calamo
21
Chirlanghiz
-
-
Andrea
Ricciardopolo
Calamo
65
Galeotta
-
-
Lettieri
Ricchiardopolo
Calamo
-
5 December
1791
Galeotta
-
-
Strajti
Nicoforoto
Calamo
-
5 December
1791
Pachebotto
L'acquila di
Russia
-
Don Cristofalo
Sassunsossolo
Calamo
66
4-23
February
1792
Chirlanghiz
Il Gran Duca
Alessandro
-
Gabriello
Caravia
Calamo
46
27 May - 23
June 1792
Galeotta
Dafne
-
Strati Nicoforati
Zante
-
20 days in
July 1792
Source: ASM, Deputazione della Salute, vol. 1 pp. 81, 102, 118 and vol. 2 pp. 26, 38, 60, 106, 122.
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Table 2
Payment effected for quarantine charges in 1811
Names of captains Start of quarantine End of quarantine
Payment in onze
Giorgio Apostolo
20 July
4 August
11
Giovanni Spiridione
7 August
26 August
11
Demetrio di Cristofalo
18 August
6 September
5.20
Anaganosti D'Andrea
15 September
4 October
5.20
Costantino Marojanni
1 October
20 October
5.20
Anaganosti Mexi
15 November
4 Dicember
5.20
Gio. Pandelio
12 Dicember
31 Dicember
5.20
Source: ASM, Deputazione della Salute, vol. 6 pp. 4, 6, 8, 10 e 12.
Table 3
Payment effected for quarantine charges in 1812
Names of captains Start of quarantine End of quarantine
Payment in onze
Costantino Chiparis
29 January
17 February
5.20
Argirio di Demetrio
18 March
6 April
8.10
Giovanni Spiridione
3 April
22 April
5.20
Anastasio Alibrandi
7 May
26 May
5.20
Argirio di Demetrio
9 May
30 May
7.25
Costantino
Sacchilopolo
22 May
10 June
5.20
Antonio Milaiti
7 June
25 June
5.20
Costantino Chiparis
9 June
3 July
7.2.10
Caralambi Cosma
1 July
28 July
7.28
Teodori Costantino
22 July
30 August
11.10
Source: ASM, Deputazione della Salute, vol. 6 pp. 16, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 48 e 52.
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Table 4
Payment effected for quarantine charges and commodities fees in 1814
Date
Names of captains
Quarantine
charges
Commodities fees
Duration of
quarantine
13 September
Angelo Parascandalo
11.10
-
40 days
1 October
Gio. Teodoropolo
1.29.10
-
7 days
10 October
Nicolò Potamiani
8.15
-
30 days
18 October
Marco
Gramaticopolo
19.0.10
3.9.7
40 days
18 October
Panai Panà
-
3.8.4
-
18 October
Criscenzio
Carciotolo
10.4.10
32.21.14
-
18 October
Caralambro Dimetri
1.29.10
-
7 days
5-12 November
Giuseppe Panajotti
7.28
0.10.6
28 days
22 November
Gerasmo Calichia
17.3.10
1.16.2
25 days
5 Dicember
Spiropolo
-
14.5
-
6 Dicember
Chiriaco Pandeli
7.28
-
28 days
6 Dicember
Attanasio Paniotti
10.4.10
2.25.2
21 days
9 Dicember
Francesco Maurianni
1.29.10
-
7 days
13 Dicember
Caralambro Sclavo
7.28
-
28 days
13 Dicember
Gerasimo Calvecchia
1.29.10
-
7 days
17 Dicember
Basilio Teodoro
Chini
-
9.24.10
-
22 Dicember
Nicolò Panajotti
1.29.10
-
7 days
Source: ASM, Deputazione della Salute, vol. 7 pp. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52 and vol. 8 pp. 2, 5, 9, 23, 24.
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Table 5
Payment effected for quarantine charges and commodities fees in 1815
Date
Names of captains
Quarantine charges
Commodities fees
Duration of
quarantine
1 January
Angelo Parascandalo
3.29
-
14 days
25 January
Andrea Dimandopolo
7.28
-
28 days
21 February
Gio. Caliga
3.11.10
-
7 days
28 February
Giorgio Sparopolo
3.29
-
14 days
1 March
Andrea Dimandopolo
-
15.28.4
-
7 March
Gio. Cristri
3.29
-
14 days
14 March
Gio. Teodoropolo
1.29.10
-
7 days
31 March
Giorgio Sparopolo
-
20.23.11
28 days
4 April
Panajotti Panà
-
17.6.13
28 days
10 April
Gio. Spiridione
-
11 April
Antonio Spiropolo
18 May
Costantino Caricotti
-
7.2
-
21 May
Marco Mauromati
3.11.10
-
7 days
23 May
Hamati Pandeli
3.11.10
-
7 days
23 May
Nicolò Milonopulo
6.23
-
14 days
16 June
Angelo Parascandalo
3.29
-
14 days
23 June
Andrea Dimandopolo
7.28
-
28 days
5.7.14
14.5
50 days
27 June
Giorgio Sparapolo
3.29
-
14 days
3 July
Marco Grammaticopolo
3.11.10
-
7 days
4 July
Marco Grammaticopolo
3.29
-
14 days
7 July
Panajotti Panà
1.29.10
-
11 July
Giorgio Sparopolo
20.23.11
7 days
28 days
11 July
Panajotti Panà
17.6.13
-
28 days
11 July
Caralambro Messuri
6.23
-
14 days
11 July
Giovanni Spiridione
-
5.7.14
-
11 July
Gerasimo Spirato
3.29
1.4.18
14 days
11 July
Spiridione Lain
6.23
-
14 days
30 July
Basilio Doncopilo
3.11.10
-
7 days
8 August
Gio. Calamani
-
0.15.19
-
10-11 August
Spiridione Dovin
1.29.10
-
7 days
16 August
Andrea Drimopolo
19.10
-
40 days
18 August
Costantino Caracotti
7.2
-
-
18 August
Marco Mauromati
3.11.10
-
7 days
18 August
Stamati Paudali
3.11.10
-
7 days
21 August
Panajotti Bogdano
-
20.15.3
40 days
23 August
Pandeli Stati
1.29.10
-
7 days
26 August
Andrea Dimitropolo
-
5.3
-
Source: ASM, Deputazione della Salute, vol. 7 pp. 54, 58, 62, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 80
and vol. 8 pp. 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 42, 54, 55, 60, 119, 125, 145, 154, 174, 175, 176, 184,
189.
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Table 6
Nota di spese occorse al Sopraintendente alle Guardie di questo Ecc.mo Magistrato
alla Salute D. Placido Galatti in occasione del disbarco eseguito in Fondachello li 20
Giugno prossimo passato di porzione degl’equipaggi de’ tre Bastimenti Greci
provenienti da Ponente come s’asserì cioè…
1817
ONZE
CAUSAL
A Natale Casabianca per cortesia estraordinaria determinata da questa per
Palermo d'ordine del Magistrato li 21 Giugno suddetto
8
Per affitto di numero 4 vetture per servizio d'esso Sopraintendente e guardie
assegnategli dal prelodato Magistrato per andata, e ritorno
2.20
Al locandiere di Spadafora per affitto d'un materazzo per uso del guardiano
Barbera, mentre per altri materazzi per servizio d'esso Sopraintendente,e del
guardiano Giardina si procurarono da' medesimi
0.6
Olio per lumi per 38 notti a tt. 1 per notte
1.8
Legno dal 5 Luglio a tutti li 29 detto
0.6
Sussidi dati da esso Sopraintendente a numero 16 contumacianti poveri in
Fondachello per essersi negati li Magistrati Municipali di Valdina, e
Spadafora a di cui comuni appartenevano essi contumacianti miserabili
5.15.6
A numero 7 uomini che fecero la guardia in Fondachello li 14 Luglio per non
aver mandato il Magistrato Municipale di Monforte le guardie in detto
giorno
0.21
Per affitto di diverse vetture per servizio d'esso Sopraintendente per andare
in detto Fondachello
0.18
Al guardiano estraordinario Litterio Gentile che portò l'ordine della prattica
per li contumacianti di Fondachello
0.8
Gratificazione per il Sopraintendente per li giorni da lui impiegati in detto
Fondachello dalli 21 Giugno alli 29 Luglio
30
TOTAL
49.12.6
Source: ASM, Deputazione della Salute, vol. 5 p. 345.
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