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Leone of Thermis.50 The most unusual cargoes to embark for Cagliari were
transported aboard two expeditions of Dino Baldoynus, a Pisan from Palermo:
700 cantari of onions aboard the boat of Guglielmo Falcone of Cagliari and 300
to 400 cantari of them on a vessel of Sant Feliu de Guixols.51
Of the some 1,500 contracts that specify the destinations of cargoes of grain
loaded in Sicily, only nine shipments were destined for Sardinia and just one
for Corsica. The most intense moment of trade was in 1308–1309, with four
ships leaving for the island: the Chiavari’s transport was chartered by two
merchants from Pisa, loaded with some 7,000 or 8,000 salmes of grain (1,770 to
2,024 hectoliters) between Mazara and Sciacca, and carried to Cagliari, Villa
di Chiese, or perhaps to Genoa or Pisa;52 a Pisan transport chartered by a mer-
chant from Prato carried 230 salmes from Palermo to Cagliari;53 a Majorcan
vessel chartered by merchants from Montpelier and Narbonne carried 600
salmes (1,518 hectoliters) from the shore at Girgenti (Agrigente) to Cagliari,
or perhaps to Ayguesmortes in Languedoc;54 and a Venetian transport car-
ried 1,000 salmes of wheat (2,530 hectoliters) to Cagliari, Tunois, or Porto
Pisano, and from there to Majorca, Marseilles, or even to Cyprus.55 Trade
resumed during the years of starvation, with a navilio of wheat destined to
Bonifacio in 1374,56 a Majorcan vessel laden at Mazara with wheat destined
for Cagliari in 1376,57 and a small Genoese boat rented by two merchants from
Castelgenovese carried 570 salmes (1,442 hectoliters) from Girgenti (Agrigente)
to Castelgenovese in 1378.58 Finally, three isolated ships were mentioned as en
route to Alghero: one was the nef of the Majorcan Antoni Soler, which was
chartered by Miquel Vignoles, a merchant in Majorca, to carry 700 salmes of
wheat in 1421.59 In 1441, the navigium of Trapani was rented for loading in
Sciacca by Pere Vendrell, a merchant in Alghero.60 Then in 1444, the galley of
50 ASP Biblioteca Manoscritti Notaio B. Citella 127b (25 August 1309).
51 ASP ND G. Citella 77 (18 June 1329).
52 ASP Biblioteca Manoscritti Notaio B. Citella 127b (26 August 1308).
53 Ibid., 24 May 1309.
54 Ibid.
55 Ibid., 30 July 1308.
56 ASP ND B. Bononia Spezzone 123: 250 salme of wheat bought by Grimaldo Pantaracio di
Bonifacio (28 December 1374).
57 ASP ND B. Bononia Spezzone 41N (24 January 1376).
58 ASP ND B. Bononia 129 (27 July 27 1379): two merchants from Bonifacio, Lorenzino de
Carlino and Bartolomeo Molinari, were listed as witnesses in the notarized act.
59 ASP ND G. Mazzapiede 838 (17 March 1421).
60 AST Not. Milo 164 (13 December 1441).