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Graph 3. Maize price index in the markets of Gubbio and Assisi, 1727-1821
Source: Author’s data processing of Graphs 1 and 2.
Graph 4. Price of a staio of wheat, Sicily’s wheat and Orvieto’s maize, 1801-1860.
Average index (1810 = 100)
Source: Mocarelli and Vaquero Piñeiro 2018.
Once established that maize entered Umbria’s market during the
eighteenth century and took hold there in the transition to the nineteenth
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Graph 3. Maize price index in the markets of Gubbio and Assisi, 1727-1821
Source: Author’s data processing of Graphs 1 and 2.
Graph 4. Price of a staio of wheat, Sicily’s wheat and Orvieto’s maize, 1801-1860.
Average index (1810 = 100)
Source: Mocarelli and Vaquero Piñeiro 2018.
Once established that maize entered Umbria’s market during the
eighteenth century and took hold there in the transition to the nineteenth
52
