Pertica (unit)
The pertica , also known as percha , was an Italian measure of length and the rod. As a square pertica , it was used as a measure of area.
Length measure
In Venice a distinction was made between large and small rods. The determining factor was the Venetian foot , piede, with 0.347735 meters (1 meter = 2.875753 piedi).
- Large rod: 1 Pertica grande / Cavezzo = 6 Piedi = 924.9 Parisian lines = 2.08641 meters
- small tail: 1 Pertica piccola / Chebbo = 4.5 Piedi = 1.564807 meters
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Duchy of Parma
- 1 Pertica = 6 Bracci di legno = 72 Once = 864 Punti = 10368 Atomi = 1442 Parisian lines = 3.25 meters
Area measure
In Milan, with a different foot measurement (0.435185 meters), it was a square measure.
- 1 square pertica = 24 tavoles = 96 square trabucchi = 3456 square piedi = 654.5179615 square meters = 6.54518 ares
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Grand Duchy of Tuscany with Florence
- 1 square pertica / square canna = 80.7 Paris square feet
- 66 square perticche = 1 stajolo = 1/10 saccato
- Duchy of Parma
- 1 square pertica = 100 Parisian square feet = 10,552 square meters
- 4 square perticche = 1 travola
- 48 square-Perticche = 1 Staro
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Piacenza
- 1 square pertica = 24 travoles = 96 square cavezzi = 75 1/3 Parisian square feet = 7,949 square meters
- Venice
- 1 square pertica = 640 travoles = 41.25 Paris square feet = 4.853 square meters
See also
literature
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830 p. 323.
- E. Behm with collective authors: Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Hermann Haack Geographical-Cartographic Institution (Justus Perthes), Gotha 1866 p. XXIII.