ABSTRACT
The Mediterranean moment had been the arena for clashes between Genoese and Venetians, Catalan merchants and above all the people of Barcelona had also moved in forcefully. However, due to the maritime Mediterranean choice made at the start of the thirteenth century by the first great sovereign of the Catalan-Aragonese dynasty, Barcelona had moved as a major power into that Genoese sea and in a short time had become Genoas fiercest antagonist. This is the case of the encounter-clash that for centuries existed between Genoa and Barcelona: an open encounter, whose base was the Mediterranean Sea. On the Genoese side, the people who, in addition to Antonio Gallo, wrote about these themes included the notary-admiral Biagio Assereto, the winner of the Battle of Ponza, and Iacopo Bracelli, a Genoese chancellor and a humanist, author of a well-known literary work on the War of Spain.
