Canna (unit)

Canna (pl. canne; proper meaning in Italian: Cane) was an ancient Italian unit of length, which differed from place to place.

  • Capua: 2.1768707 m (9th – 15th centuries)[1]
  • Republic of Genoa: 2.49095 m
  • Kingdom of Naples:
    • canna: 2.1163952 m (edict of 6 April 1480)
    • canna: 2.6455026 m (law of 6 April 1840)
    • field surveying canna: 6.998684 m² (law of 6 April 1840)
  • Romagna: 1.9928 m
  • Sicily: 2.062 m
  • Tuscany
    • field surveying canna, a.k.a. 5 "braccia" long "pertica": 2.9183 m
    • canna (fabric): 0.58366 m
  • Rome
    • canna (architecture): 2.234 m
    • commercial canna: 1.992 m
  • Teramo: 3.17 m
  • Malta: 2.08 m (2 yd, 10 in)[2]
Metric conversion table, 1860

Sources
  • Guidi, Giuseppe (1855) [1839]. Ragguaglio delle monete dei pesi e delle misure attualmente in uso negli stati italiani (in Italian). Firenze: Federico Pustet / Le Monnier. Retrieved 12 July 2015.

Notes
    • De Rosa, Vincenzo (1977). "Tavole di ragguaglio delle misure napoletane comuni e delle consuetudinarie capuane con il sistema metrico decimale". Quaderni della Gazzetta di Gaeta (in Italian). Cassino: Di Bernardo (14).
  2. "The Water Supply of the Maltese Islands" (PDF). Archivum Melitense. Malta Historical and Scientific Society. VII (1): 6. 1922. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. One Maltese canna is practically, equal, [sic] to 2 yards 10 inches.
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