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rubbio

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In Italy and Spain, 15ᵗʰ – 19ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of dry capacity used for grain. Believed same as rugghio.

Locale	Equivalencies	Liters
Ancona	= 8 coppe = 32 provende	286.10
Livorno	= 3¾ sacchi = 11¼ staja = 45 quarti = 190 metadelle = 360 mezzette = 720 quartucci = 1440 bussoli	274.04
Milan	= 2 moggia or sacchi = 16 staja or stari = 32 starelli	292.47
Ravenna & Rimini		278.58
Rome	= 2 rubbiatelle = 4 quarte = 8 quartarelle = 12 staja = 16 starelli = 22 scorzi = 88 quartucci. For salt, the rubbio = 2 quarte = 12 scorzi = 48 quartucci.	294.42
Sinigaglia		281
Spain		194.4

Grano vi [in Rome] si vende a rugghio che fa in Genova mine una e septe octavi e in Firenze staia octo e tre quarti.

[In Rome] grain is sold by the rugghio, which is in Genoa 1⅞ mina and in Florence 8¾ staia.

In Italy, a unit of mass.

Locale	Equivalencies	kilograms
Bergamo	synonym for peso	8.15
Genoa	rubbo peso sottile	7.92
Genoa	rubbo peso grossa	8.72
Mantua	= 25 libbre	7.89
Milan	in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venice after 1803	10
Naples	= 26 libbre	8.34
Nice	= 25 libbre	7.79
Parma	= 25 libbre	8.16
Plaisance	= 25 libbre	7.95
Turin	= 25 libbre	9.22

In Italy, a unit of liquid capacity.

Locale	Equivalencies	Liters
Genoa	for oil, weighs 25 libbra sottile	8.62
Milan	for oil, weighs 25 libbra grossa	20.83
Nice	for wine, = 1/12 charge = 10 pintes	7.86

In Italy in the Middle Ages, a unit of land area, = 7 pezze = 4 quarta = 16 scorzi = 64 quartucci. It was about 18,484 square meters.

Peter Kidson.
A Metrological Investigation.
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 53 (1990).
Page 95.