Métayage (French; also Italian mezzadria, Spanish aparcería) was a form of contract by which a lessee (métayeur, mezzadro, aparcero) would work a piece of land for the owner, with the partners dividing between them the necessary equipment and the yields. This form of sharecropping was very widespread in a number of European countries from the late Middle Ages on, and it assumed radically different forms [4]. In Italy [10], it was particularly common in Tuscany, Umbria, the Marche, and Emilia Romagna,…