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Table of Contents

Introductory notes by the author page 8
Presentations “ 14
Prefaces “ 42

THE MYSTERY OF THE SAILOR: LANZAROTTO
MALOCELLO IN THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS “ 58

THE LIGURIAN SCENE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES “ 82
THE HORIZONS OF GENOA: SPLENDOUR AND TWILIGHT “ 92

HISTORICAL EXCURSUS OF A DYNASTY “ 128
Appendix I – The Malocello family and the Catholic Church “ 148
Appendix II – With regard to the Owl, night watcher “ 152
WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT
LANZAROTTO MALOCELLO?
ITALIAN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES “ 178
FOREIGN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
a) Francophone sources “ 212
Appendix I- Giovanni Da Carignano’s map
and the other medieval nautical charts “ 220
Appendice II-l’Ile de Lancelot Maloisel (1312) by Charles La
Ronciere “ 228
b) English language sources “ 230
c) Spanish language sources “ 232