Name of Object:

An insurance policy by the company Compagnia Affricana (based in Trieste), for the merchandise transported by the Tuscan brigantine Otello, from Alexandria (Egypt) to Livorno (Italy)

Location:

Livorno, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Livorno

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Livorno

Date of Object:

Alexandria, 11 March 1835

Description:

This insurance policy testifies to the intricate economic relations across the Mediterranean. The insurance company “Compagnia Affricana”, whose headquarter was in Trieste (at the time, under the Austrian Empire), specialised in transports to and from North Africa. The brigantine Otello was transporting incense and oxen horns.

Type of Object

Archival document

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASLi, Governo civile e militare, busta n. 890

Citation of this web page:

Cristina Francioli "An insurance policy by the company Compagnia Affricana (based in Trieste), for the merchandise transported by the Tuscan brigantine Otello, from Alexandria (Egypt) to Livorno (Italy)" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;23;en

Prepared by: Cristina Francioli
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 023