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fllora of land, 3 livres. Threfhing corn by the day, 1 livre and food. Cutting corn,18 grazie and food.
Modena. —Common labour, 1 paul and wine. Carpenter andmafon, 2 pauls.Parma.— Printer’s men, 3 pauls a day, (i6fd.)
Lanefbourg. —Winter , 1 of. and food. Summer, lof. and food.
Poultry.
Nice. —Turkey, 7 Hvres. Fowl, iof. Pigeon, icf . Eggs, 1 if. the dozen.
Turin . —Turkey, 3 of. Fowl, 15/ Duck, 2 5 /^ Goofe, t$f Pigeon, 10 f. Eggs,the dozen, 8 f.
Milan. —Turkey, 1 if. per pound. Fowl, 20/I Duck, 32/. Eggs, the dozen, i6f.Capon, 1 $f. per pound.
Bologna. —Turkey of about four pounds 3 § pauls. Pair of capons, 30 baiocchi. Eggs,1 baioc. each; in winter, 1 f baioc. Tame large pigeons, 24 baioc. the pair. Wild fmallpigeons, 12 baioc. Eels from 12 to 14 baioc. per pound. Tench , 10 baioc. per pound.Pike, from 12 to 15 baioc. Sturgeon , 5 or 6 pauls per pound.
Modena. —Capon, j paul. Fowl, 40 bol. Turkey, 4 livres. Duck,. 4 livres.Twenty eggs, 25 bol. Pigeons, 1 paul the pair.
Rife of Prices.
Milan. —In 794, a decree of the Senate and Diet of Frankfort, canon four, that comfhould fell at the following prices, no regard to fcarcity and abundance:— Moggio ofoats 1 denar0 ; one of barley, 2 denari; one of rye, 3 denari; one of wheat, 4 denari,proportion 1080 to 1.
In 835, hogs, 20 denari.
In 857, one pound of filver, lira, 20 fold't of 12 denari; one denaro , now at Milan,,on companion of an antient denaro of half a paolo, was as 1 to 90 \ for 90 denari makehalf a paol. The value of filver now to that of antient times, as 1 to 12; therefore it is1 to 1080 *.
975 . un Jlajo di vino , 1 denajo ; un moggio di frumento , 4 denaji; un carro di Iegna rI denajo , equal to 18 Hvres, at 1 to 1080 j.
In 1 j 52, rye and panic, 3 Hvres the moggio ; 1 denaro equal to 130; confeq.uently
3 livres is equal to 13 livres icf. 10 den. J
In 1165, 500 hogs, each 6 foldi; which now we mud call 65 Hvres each jj. Cart
load of wood drawn by a pair of oxen, j 2 denari; equal now to 6 £ livres.
In 1272, 1 moggio of wheat, the common price 1 9 foldi, Millet , 12 foldi / and thisto the money of the prefent time, is as a livre for a fol; that is, wheat 19 livres andmillet 12 livres §.
In 1315, 1 foldo for a mafs, equal to twenty now; 1 fiorino dioro , 30 f. now 60 livres,.as 1 to 40 3 the fiorino d'oro ancient, and the prefent zecchino the fame thing. From thistime to the prefent, the proportion of the money of thofe times to the prefent, is as
1 to 4.^
In 1402, the fiorino 0 ducato d’oro, worth 42 foldi, equal to 16 livres 8 f. at prefent * # .Bologna. —The prices of every thing are now at Bologna from 1 o to 15 per cent,dearer than ten years ago j here attributed to the increafed plenty of money from a rife of
* Gtulini, Storiad't Milano, vol. i. p. 268. f Hid. vol. ii p. 380. f Ibid, vol v. p. 527.
II Ibid. vol. vi. p. 332. $ Ibid. vol. viii. p. 254. «R Ibid. vol. x. p. 87. ** Ibid. vol. xii. p. 63.
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