Pezza

The Pezza , rarely Pezzo , was an Italian square measure in the Roman papal state . As a pezza, it was also a Tuscan bill coin.

• 1 Pezza = 10 square catena = 733 square fathoms (Wiener) = 2636.6 square meters

As a field measure, the pezza was a so-called sowing measure , i.e. a certain amount of seed determines the area that can be cultivated.

• 1 Pezza = 11 yoke (Viennese)

See also

Michele Pezza was the correct name of Fra Diavolo .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 316.
2. ↑ Friedrich Erdmann Petri: Concise manual of foreign words in German written and colloquial language, to understand and avoid those, more or less dispensable interference. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1852, p. 629.