The pepper is without question the most widespread of spices. When Alaric I, king of the Visigoths, plundered the city of Rome in 410, he takes care to take with him 5,000 pounds of pepper, in addition to his gigantic booty. In the Middle Ages, although pepper is more widespread, it is always rare, and above all expensive. This then makes the pepper so precious obviously lies in the long distances to be carried out to obtain it. In the same way as gold, spices, and pepper in particular, represent for great travelers, such as Christophe Columbus or Vasco de Gama, one of the major objectives of their distant expeditions.
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