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Giulio Ongaro and Edoardo Demo
Figure 1.3 Number of Notaries Residing in Schio (1470–1800)
Notes Based on data from asvi, Notarial archives.
most certainly many other notaries practised in Schio, considering that
Lucien Faggion wrote that around 23 notaries worked in the village in the
sixteenth century (Faggion 2017, 57, 59).
As we will observe in the following pages, the high number of notaries
was due to the relevant number of economic transactions that took place
in Schio: the leasing of fields and buildings, loans, the creation of business
companies, besides the stipulation of acts related to dowries, wills, and so
on.
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