Saturday, September 30, 2023
Food Security
Trevor Dean and Daniel Waley, The Italian City-Republics, 5th ed. (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 76-77:
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Volterra ordered all men living in certain hilly areas to plant at least four fruit trees each year, whereas Pisa required all contadini to plant six a year, as well as insisting on cabbage patches and beans. Parma decreed that all sharecroppers plough at least four times before sowing and specifically forbade the export of almost all foodstuffs, including cheese, poultry, eggs and vegetables.
