Apollonio de Zilia

In the year 1608 a certain Leonardo Broili from Siaio, was summoned in Udine by the Father Inquisitor because he was charged, together with some fellow townsmen, with having not observed the precepts of the Church during the time he was in Germany. On 17.08.1607, "Appollonio De Cilia from Treppo, guarantor for Giovanni Del Broili from Siaio, tried to ask back the money (286 lire and 8 soldi) he had had to pay out on behalf of his defaulting protégé. Later on, Giovanni del Broili, in the name of De Cilia, had to mortgage in his turn the ‘domum suae propriae abitationis... campum et pratum vocatum Sot la Strade...". There were many cramârs mortgaging their property in order to scrape together the money required to buy something to sell in the Countries of Central Europe.