Antoniotto da Cabella

Antoniotto da Cabella was a 15th century Italian merchant and politician, known as last consul of Caffa, a Genoese colony in today's Ukraine.

Antoniotto was a native of Cabella Ligure, he moved to Genoa, where he obtained a land and house in Santa Brigida, in the area of ​​the Rolli, where he became a silk weaver. Silk weaving industry was one of the essential engines of Genoese economy and by 1461 Antoniotto was one of the leading producers in Genoa.

In 1471 he became an advisor of the consul of the Genoese colony of Caffa, and the following year he became consul. He made his trip from Genoa to Caffa by land. Following the invasion of Caffa in 1475 by the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, he was captured and brought to Perra, a suburb of the capital Istanbul. He died in captivity in Pera in 1475.