Catasto is the
Italian system of
land registration. 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 IMU council property
tax
A tax is a mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on an individual or legal entity by a governmental organization to support government spending and public expenditures collectively or to regulate and reduce negative externalities. Tax co ...
(''
Imposta Municipale Unica'').
There are several companies which offer easy search facilities to draw
data
Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...
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.
History
The
Florentine Catasto of 1427 provided an important source of raw historical data for historians of the
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
. The extensive surveys conducted by Florentine officials reveal changing forms of social organization over the period that records were collected.
David Herlihy and
Christiane 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.
See also
*
David Herlihy
External links
Brown.edu: 1427 Catasto for the Republic of Florence, Italy (~10,000 records)*
ttp://www.oresteparise.it/Catasto/catastocavallerizzo.htm Oresteparise.it: 1753 Catasto Onciario for Cavallerizzo, Italy
Law of Italy
Real estate in Italy
Land registration
1427 establishments in Europe
15th-century establishments in the Republic of Florence
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