Expenditures and revenues (1510-1511)

ASUPg, Sapienza Nuova, Entrate e uscite, registro n. 7

Parchment-bound paper accounting book

The register, attributed to the rector Giovanni Francesco Baglioni, reports in the first section the presence of schoolchildren and "famigli" (house servants) followed by expenditure and revenues of money and products.

In the charter no.30r, for the first time in the Collegio registers, we find the annotation of the purchase (for twenty coins) of a porchetta: “Item 22 spisi per una porchetta per noi soldi vinti”.

The earliest evidence of porchetta in Umbria can be found in the Statute of the Municipality of Perugia in 1279, in which it is authorized the sale of a "porcella astata" (whole pig roasted on a spit) near the Fontana Maggiore only on special occasions, such as fairs and public games.

The first mention of porchetta in vernacular dates back to the Statute of the Municipality of Perugia in 1342, where, again, the sales rules of "porchecta" by the "porchetaio" are established.

The porchetta at the time was not habitually eaten, and, at least among the lower classes, was consumed mostly during religious and popular holidays (in the displayed document the expenditure was registered in the days immediately following the period of Mid-August, the celebration of the Assumption of Mary).

At the same time, it should be also noted that on the charter no. 29v, on August the15^th, the goose ("ocha") is mentioned; still today, following the tradition, goose meat is cooked in Umbria for mid-August lunch.