The early records are in Latin and they include carvana (1190), caravana (1217), caravanna (1219-1225), karavenna (1250).[9] Possibly slightly earlier is Latin caravana (reportedly 1161).[3] From southern Italy, referring to a caravan of sailing ships, is Latin carabana (1240).[11] All of those Latin records use the word with the same meaning as the Arabic word. The word with this meaning has been continuously in use in the Western languages since then. In Italian, late medieval merchants have it in several kinds of applications contexts, spelled carovana | caravana.[12] It is pretty common in late medieval Italy (e.g., is in Boccaccio's Decameron and Pegolotti's Mercatura).