Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68512-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

Reihe: Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources

The open access publication of this book was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

This volume sheds new light on modern theories of natural law through the lens of the fragmented political contexts of Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic changes of the times. From the age of reforms, through revolution and the ‘Risorgimento’, the unification movement which ended with the creation of the unified Kingdom of Italy in 1861, we see a move from natural law and the law of nations to international law, whose teaching was introduced in Italian universities of the newly created Kingdom. The essays collected here show that natural law was not only the subject of a highly codified academic teaching, but also provided a broader conceptual and philosophical frame underlying the ‘science of man’. Natural law is also a language wherein reform programmes of education and of politics have taken form, affecting a variety of discourses and literary genres.

Contributors are: Alberto Clerici, Vittor Ivo Comparato, Giuseppina De Giudici, Frédéric Ieva, Girolamo Imbruglia, Francesca Iurlaro, Serena Luzzi, Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Emanuele Salerno, Gabriella Silvestrini, Antonio Trampus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fiocchi Malaspina, Elisabetta

Silvestrini, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina and Gabriella Silvestrini

Part 1: Between Civil Law and the Law of Nature and Nations

1 Natural Law at the University of Pisa: From the Ius Civile Teachings to the Establishment of the First Chair of Ius Publicum in 1726

Emanuele Salerno

2 Reception and Reinterpretation: Natural Law and the Law of Nations at the Roman ‘Sapienza’ in the Eighteenth Century

Alberto Clerici

3 The Teaching of Natural Law and Universal Public Law at the University of Pavia in the Late Eighteenth Century

Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina

4 The Law of Nature and Nations in the Mirror of the Academy of Fists: Reforms, Philosophy, Law and Economy

Gabriella Silvestrini

Part 2: Recoveries and Criticisms of Natural Law

5 Natural Ethics and History: Antonio Genovesi and Mario Pagano

Girolamo Imbruglia

6 Pufendorf and Hutcheson in the Alps: Variations on Natural Law in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Serena Luzzi

7 The Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Jus Gentium into Nineteenth-Century Law of Nations: An Italian Debate

Antonio Trampus

Part 3: From Natural Law and the Law of Nations to International Law

8 The Political Science of Natural Law: The Case of Perugia

Vittor Ivo Comparato

9 The Chair of International Law and Pasquale Stanislao Mancini’s Lectures in Turin

Fre´de´ric Ieva

10 The Law of International Love: Luigi Taparelli d’Azeglio on Catholic Natural Law and the Law of Nations

Francesca Iurlaro

11 The Teaching of International Law in Cagliari, the ‘Italian School’ and the Unification of Italy

Giuseppina De Giudici

Index of Persons

Index of Places

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Ph.D. (2012), University of Genoa, is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich. She has published L’eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVII–XIX) (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2017).



Gabriella Silvestrini, Ph.D. (1992), University of Turin, is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at the Humanities Department of the Università del Piemonte Orientale. She has published on early modern political thought, including Diritto naturale e volontà generale. Il contrattualismo repubblicano di Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Claudiana, 2010).