Starting from the “Matricola de’ Maestri dell’Arte de’ Fraveghi della Città di Genova”, an index bound in vellum listing the master silversmiths enrolled during the period 1689-1710, this volume presents a systematic record of Ligurian gold and silversmiths active in the eighteenth century. Assereto, Croce, Pardes, Passano, Signorio, Cosso, Gianotto, Oxello: these are the most famous names among the fràveghi (silversmiths) working in the city of Genoa, at that time Italy’s principal silver market with clients from Spain, the French nobility and municipalities, and above all the great local aristocratic families, the Doria, the Spinola, the Pallavicini, the Brignole-Sale, and the Durazzo. As well as the catalogue of religious and secular silverware, the volume contains a silversmith’s dictionary, a list of hallmarks, consuls, markers and assayers of the mint, and an index of places.
Text in Italian.