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barile

1

In Libya, a unit of capacity, about 64.4 liters (about 17.01 U.S. gallons).

2

In modern Greece, a unit of capacity, 74.2 liters (about 19.6 U.S. gallons).

3

In Italian-speaking Europe, a unit of capacity used for wine and brandy:

Locale	Fraction of a larger unit	Size in liters
Florence		45.58
Genoa	½ mezzaruola	74.23
Naples	1/12 botte	43.62
Palermo	1/12 pipe	35.72
Rome	1/16 botte	58.34
Pisa		45.58

Rocca¹ traced the evolution of the wine barile of Genoa:

Date	Size in pinte	Size in liters
early days	48*	45.740
~1300	50	47.65
1455	56	54.85
1523	60	58.77
1570	72	70.52
1589	75	73.46
1596	78	76.40
1606	80	78.36
1877	†	79.50

* This pinta, containing 3 libbre of wine, was the medieval sestiaro, about 0.953 liters. The barile of 48 such pinte was half of the metreta or mezarolia. Like the barile, the size of the pinta varied with time.

† Defined in amole, rather than pinte; 90 of them. The corresponding size of the barile is the one given in the official 1877 table of metric equivalents.²

1. Pietro Rocca.
Pesi e Misure Antiche di Genova e del Genovesato.
Genova: Tipografia del R. Istituto Sordo-Muti, 1871.
Page 108.

2. Tavole di Ragguaglio dei Pesi e Delle Misure …
Roma: Stamperia Reale, 1877.

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In Italian-speaking Europe, a unit of capacity used for oil, although oil was almost always sold by weight, not volume. The names of the capacity measure actually signified definite weights of oil:

Locale	Size in liters
Rome	57.49
Pisa	33.43
Genoa	64.67
Florence	33.43

Rocca, cited above, has performed the same service for the barile of oil in Genoa:

Date	Equivalents	Weight in kilograms	Capacity in liters of oil
1160	30 libra major olei, which is about 7 rubbi, 5 libbre	56.955	61.908
1462	32 libra major olei, about 7 rubbi, 17 libbre	60.992	66.290
1606	deduced from a bronze half barrel standard of that date	59.800	65.000
1849	according to the gov't table published that year		65.480
1877	= 128 quarterone, according to the Tavole di Ragguaglio	60.953
19th c	actual, in commerce, taken as 7½ rubbi	59.560	64.750