'Loca communalia e ius terrae Etruriae. Strutture agrarie etrusche e centuriazione romana

We suggest to consider the Etruscan communalia as an evidence of the pre-roman ager compascuuus. The term communalis attested only in the gromatics’ texts and mainly refferring to Etruria, would be the latin word derived form the etruscan muni(s), village, community. It was used by land surveyors to signify the lands of the Etruscan rural village, mostly forests and grasslands, which would have maintained the original legal status, characterized by a public sharing, even later than roman colonization, insofar as not hitten by centuriation because of their public utility. Theis juridical category would have survived also in the following period. The medieval communalia attested in border areas share with those of pre-roman age the same juridical discipline. This argument could be interpreted as a confirmation of the “teoria continuistica” developed by Bognetti, who thinks that the medieval commune loci derives from the pre-roman ager compascuus.