He ransomed his good name for her, but, once convinced he was no longer the key to her release, she moved on to other advisers.
But Mr Mastrogiacomo was the latest of at least half a dozen Italian hostages in different parts of the world who are thought to have been ransomed in the past two years.
The London-based International Maritime Bureau says that piracy off the coast of west Africa made up 19% of the world's attacks last year.Kidnapped captains can be ransomed.
Sometimes the people they abduct are released; sometimes they are ransomed; sometimes they disappear; sometimes their bodies are found.
It was the biggest vessel hijacked by the pirates so far, and joins at least a dozen others held in Somali ports waiting to be ransomed.
He was ransomed for 40,000 gold francs.
No accurate figure for the number of captives ransomed can be given, but it has been estimated that the total was as high as 140,000.
He was ransomed from Rome by the older tanna and sage, Rabbi Joshua Joshuaa ben Hananiah), on one of the latter's trips there.
While en route, Harold was captured by one of William's vassals and may have been ransomed by the duke, who then took Harold on a military campaign in Brittany.
Upon being ransomed, he held his former command until recalled to England late in 1431.
He learns that Owen Glendower, the Welsh chieftain, has captured Edmund Mortimer, the earl of March, and that Henry Percy, known as Hotspur, son of the earl of Northumberland, has refused to release his Scottish prisoners until the king has ransomed Mortimer.
