Table A2 Population figures for cities (precise figures and dates in Italy where acceptably accurate figures are available)

1500 1600 1700
Amsterdam 14,000 65,000 200,000
London 40,000 200,000 575,000
Madrid 49,000 110,000
Paris 100,000 220,000 510,000
1500 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750
[1656] [1701]
Ancona 9,556 8,644
Bari 8,000 8,000 15,000 15,000 13,000 18,000
[1586] [1764]
Bergamo 17,707 27,000 25,000 24,468
[1581] [1624] [1701]
Bologna 55,000 70,661 62,844 61,691 58,000 63,346 69,000
1500 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750
[1493] [1586] [1624] [1642] [1764]
Brescia 56,060 42,660 36,000 43,235 25,063 35,000 38,889
Catanzaro 11,500 12,000
Cosenza 8,700 12,000
[1601] [1701] [1736]
Ferrara 42,000 32,860 25,000 29,129 26,654
[1551] [1622] [1642] [1766]
Florence 70,000 60,773 70,000 76,023 69,495 72,000 78,635
[1597] [1660] [1662] [1788]
Genoa 60,000 65,000 62,396 38,360 47,668 77,563
Lecce 26,000 32,000 16,000
[1562] [1601] [1642] [1785]
Livorno 563 3,958 12,302 16,000 49,424
[1744]
Lucca 24,000 24,000 25,000 23,000 20,770
Mantua 28,000 38,000 31,000 14,000 21,000 24,000
[1688] [1773]
Milan 100,000 108,000 100,000 125,829 128,473
[1590] [1591] [1620]
Modena 18,000 16,000 19,911 16,695 20,505 15,000 19,000 18,000
[1596] [1606] [1743] [1765]
Naples 150,000 212,000 237,784 280,746 300,000 315,000 294,241 337,095
[1557] [1586] [1648] [1764]
Padua 27,000 35,852 34,075 36,000 32,714 30,000 31,319
[1509] [1787]
Parma 19,034 25,000 33,000 19,000 35,000 34,219
[1551] [1582] [1618] [1656] [1701] [1736]
Perugia 25,000 19,876 19,581 19,722 17,385 16,045 13,997
[1632] [1745]
Poppi 1,450 704 1,329
[1562] [1672]
Prato 5,996 5,600 6,623
Reggio Calabria 12,000 17,000
[1591] [1602] [1652]
Rome 55,000 45,000 116,695 99,312 118,047 149,447 157,881
[1560] [1610] [1640] [1670] [1745]
Siena 13,679 18,659 5,998 16,544 14,645
[1770]
Turin 14,000 24,000 37,000 42,000 81,848
[1586] [1764]
Udine 14,579 14,339
[1563] [1581] [1624] [1633] [1655] [1760]
Venice 100,000 168,627 134,877 142,804 98,244 158,772 149,476
[1586] [1764]
Verona 52,109 39,789
[1586] [1764]
Vicenza 21,268 37,000 25,000 26,000 27,307

Sources: Black (1989), Appendix1, quoting sources; nowsupplemented and emended, especially byBeloch (1959); Beltrami (1959). Though some precise figures are given from state and ecclesiastical counts made at the time, there are various problems as to who was included: young babies, people in suburbs, monks and nuns, garrison troops, Jews, etc. The same criteria might not apply in successive counts for the same city.