Catasto is the

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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 ICI council property

tax A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, or n ...

('' Imposta Comunale sugli Immobili''). There are several companies which offer easy search facilities to draw

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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.''

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) which might be held over their ownership. The Florentine Catasto of 1427 provided an important source of raw historical data for historians of the

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. 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.

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 {{- it:Catasto

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