- Catasto
Catasto (also catasti, catastale, catastali) is the Italian system of
land registration . The word gives rise to the English "cadastre ".The register itself is maintained at a local level by the individual councils or "Comuni". The data held in the Catasto is the basis for the ICI council property
tax ("Imposta Comunale sugli Immobili ").There are several companies which offer easy search facilities to draw
data from the various Italian local councils. This information can be used to understand the property holdings of individuals or companies and the charges ("e.g."mortgages ) which might be held over their ownership.The Florentine Catasto of
1427 provided an important source of raw historical data for historians of theRenaissance . The extensive surveys conducted by Florentine officials reveal changing forms of social organization over the period that records were collected.David Herlihy andChristiane Klapisch-Zuber 's work on these records, "Tuscans and Their Families" is one of the first historical works to make use of computer-assisted statistical analysis.ee also
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David Herlihy External links
* [http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/ 1427 Catasto for Florence,Italy (circa:10,000 records)]
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilfmm/Data/catasto_onciario.htm 1754 Marano Marchesato, Cosenza, Calabria,Italy - Catasto Onciario]
* [http://www.oresteparise.it/Catasto/catastocavallerizzo.htm 1753 Cavallerizzo,Italy - Catasto Onciario]
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