I think, that there is the rough rule, that in the lower class you spend about 50% of you income for your meals. This is nowadays not the case, so that you can't compare the situation. And poor people couldn't have meat at each day, I would assume, if I look at the prizes. Likely meat consume was easier to have in Germany and other countries with more green grass and less populous cities (I saw the remark - true or untrue - that a German building worker could buy three sheep and a pair of shoes for one week's salary; well, maybe the sheep were originally lambs). Hardly imaginable for the meat prices of Florence. Near Florence are mountains, possibly not ideal for meat production.Ross G. R. Caldwell wrote:So you get a kilo of mutton for 5 soldi (1 kilo for 63 denari; 63/12=5,25 soldi). For a cheap Triumph pack at 10 soldi, you could get two kilos of meat.
For my 10 euro pack of cheap cards, I could buy a little over 1 kilo today (sometimes almost 1 1/2 kilos).
Generally 1 or 2 weak grano years could cause hunger years. Grano was the essential product, what saved the life.
Italy is famous for Pasta. You need grano for pasta.
But all this I don't know for sure. We should study these economical questions, if we want to evaluate this early Trionfi card price situation.
