54 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century
. Balard, “Péra au XIVe siècle: Documents notariés de Gênes,” docs. 73, 77, 80; Laiou-
Thomadakis, “The Byzantine Economy,” 219.
. Balard, “Péra au XIVe siècle: Documents notariés de Gênes,” doc. 66.
. Belgrano, “Prima serie di documenti,” doc. 30.
. Ibid., doc. 36.
. For only a few of them, see Badoer, Il libro dei Conti di Giacomo Badoer, 1:110, 133, 150,
164, 181, 184, 201, 288.
. Cyriac of Ancona, Later Travels, letter 8.
. Ibid., letter 37.
. Ibid., letter 38.
. Roccatagliata, Notai Genovesi in oltremare: Atti rogati a Pera e Mitilene, doc. 33.
. Balard, La romaine génoise, 1:250.
. De la Broquière, The Voyage d’Outremer by Bertrandon de la Broquiere, 82–83.
. Tafur, Travels and Adventures, 1435– 1439 , 149.
. Roccatagliata, “Notai Genovesi in oltremare: Atti rogati a Pera (1453),” doc. 12.
. Babilano Pallavicino was also one of the envoys who negotiated with Sultan Mehmed II
after the conquest.
. Doukas, Decline and Fall of Byzantium, 230.
. My translation is after Halil İnalcık, who provided an English translation of the ahid-
name in “Ottoman Galata, 1453–1553,” 276–277.
. Pistarino, “The Genoese in Pera—Turkish Galata.”
. Roccatagliata, “Notai Genovesi in oltremare: Atti rogati a Pera (1453),” doc. 13.
. The baili of Pera was a committee responsible for the jurisdiction and administrative
matters of the Genoese community.
. İnalcık, The Survey of Istanbul, 1455.
. Roccatagliata, Notai Genovesi in oltremare: Atti rogati a Pera e Mitilene, doc. 57.
. Ibid., docs. 108, 118, 119.
. Doukas, Historia Byzantina, 322–328.
. Belgrano, “Prima serie di documenti,” doc. 154.