Note 6 — Chapter II
Robert Harrison translation
G. Canestrini, La Scienza e l’Arte di Stato desunta dagli Atti Officiali della Repubblica Florentina e dei Medici. Parte 1, L’imposta sulla ricchezza mobile e immobile. Florenz. 1862. No more has appeared of this work, which was to be the economical and administrative history of the Republic and of the first Medici period. The first part treats of the Estimo, of the Cadastre, and of the Decima of 1494. Cf. L. Banchi in the Archivio Stor. Ital., serie iii. i. p. 90 (G. F. Pagnini). Della Decima e delle altre gravezze imposte dal Commune di Firenze (Lucca, 1763) has in its first volume, p. 10, a short account of Florentine taxation, up to the introduction of the decima (p. 214-231.—Provision of May 22, 1427, for the formation of the cadastre).