Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone

Deceased Person

1080 – 1164

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Who was Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone?

Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone was a statesman, diplomat, admiral and historian of the Republic of Genoa. Between 1122 and 1149 he served eight terms as a consul. His most enduring work was the Annales ianuenses, the official history of the Genoese republic, which he began and which was continued by successors down to 1294.

Caffaro was born in the village of Caschifellone in either 1080 or 1081. While a teenager, he travelled to the Holy Land with a Genoese contingent on the First Crusade from August 1100 until January 1101. He returned to the Holy Land in the 1130s. Some time after that, perhaps in 1155–56, when Genoa was in the midst of a dispute with the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Caffaro wrote De liberatione civitatum orientis, a work on the First Crusade, the relations between the West and the Byzantine Empire and travel distances between the cities of the East.

Shortly thereafter he began writing his history of Genoa, titled Annales. Though Caffaro's imperfect Latin prevented the Annales from achieving greatness as literature, the chronicle was the first of its kind in Genoa and remains an important historical record. It is an important source of information on the careers of the early Embriachi.

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Born
1080
Genoa
Lived in
  • Liguria
Died
1164

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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