In the 1970s, Astone Gasparetto successfully initiated the reconstruction of the relevant, long-past events. After a long pause, this painstaking task was taken up by Mauro Bondioli, whose dedicated work in the State Archives in Venice has yielded hundreds of documents, and he connected them to the multi-layered historical story, linked to many places in the Adriatic and Eastern Mediterranean. The situation in the Mediterranean at the time of the shipwreck consisted in the complexity of socio-political relations and the uncertainty of the navigation route on which merchant vessels normally sailed when headed toward the Ionian, Aegean and Black Seas and the eastern Mediterranean in general.