Cantarello

The Cantarello was an Italian measure of weight, once officially valid in Sardinia .

Connections

As a hundredweight, the measure was conceptually on a par with the measures Cantaro , Quintal and Centinajo. The difference resulted from the differences in the pound in other countries such as Switzerland , Denmark , Sweden and the then Principality of Wallachia .

conversion

• 1 Cantarello = 42.2 kilograms or 82.16 inch pounds
• 1 Cantarello = 4 Rubbi = 104 Libbre

In Sassari a distinction was made between large and small Cantarelli. The former was reckoned with 6, the other with 4 Rubbi,

See also

• Cantaro (unit of weight)
• Cantaro (volume measure)
• Calpo (unit)

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse publishing house, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Smaller Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, p. 726.
2. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1100.
3. ↑ Universal encyclopedia of the present and the past or the latest encyclopedic dictionary of science, arts and crafts. Volume 25, HA Pierer, Altenburg 1844, p. 344.