Galeotto Adorno

Galeotto Adorno was a Genoese merchant of the Adorno house, a family at the centre of Genoese politics in the fourteenth century; Gabriele Adorno of the same house was elected doge of Genoa in 1363.

Around 1343 Galeotto joined a trading venture to Cathay, carrying eight hundred silver sommi invested in precious goods, among them a crown, a necklace and pearls. At Khanbaliq he gathered the effects left by Luchino Malrasi, a Piacentine merchant who had died in the Chinese capital, and on his return to Genoa handed them to Malrasi's mother and settled with his backers, restoring their capital together with a share of the profits.

A Genoese notarial instrument of 10 July 1343 records him bequeathing a hundred lire to his sister Marinetta, widow of Antonio Embrone, towards a new marriage.