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seventeenth-century Southern Italian feudal commune. Surviving public records and
other primary sources are used to both elucidate the commune's
organization, administration and accounting procedures and to portray key aspects of
community life through a classification analysis of the entries contained in the
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1664–90, thus specifying the major homogeneous groups of expenses of the
Commune and thereby elucidating the adopted social priorities and concerns of the
time. Such studies are important in enhancing an understanding of life and times in
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