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Natural law and the law of nations in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Italy [electronic resource] / edited by Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Gabriella Silvestrini

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Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill/Nijhoff, [2024]
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x, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
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Fiocchi Malaspina, Elisabetta and Silvestrini, Gabriella, 1961-
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Contents
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 -- Reception and reinterpretation : natural law and the law of nations at the Roman 'Sapienza' in the Eighteenth Century / Alberto Clerici -- The teaching of natural law and universal public law at the University of Pavia in the late Eighteenth Century / Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina -- The law of nature and nations in the mirror of the academy of fists : reforms, philosophy, law, and economy / Gabriella Silvestrini -- Natural ethics and history : Antonio Genovesi and Mario Pagano / Girolamo Imbruglia -- Pufendorf and Hutcheson in the Alps : variations on natural law in Eighteenth-Century Italy / Serena Luzzi -- The transformation of Eighteenth-Century Jus Gentium into Nineteenth-Century law of nations : an Italian debate / Antonio Trampus -- The political science of natural law : the case of Perugia / Vittor Ivo Comparato -- The chair of international law and Pasquale Stanislao Mancini's lectures in Turin / Frédéric Ieva -- The law of international love : Luigi Taparelli d'Azeglio on Catholic natural law and the law of nations / Francesca Iurlaro -- The teaching of international law in Cagliari, the 'Italian School' and the unification of Italy / Giuseppina de Giudici.
Summary
"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 framework for the 'science of man'. Natural law was also a language in which reform programmes of education and politics were formulated and were acted upon"--
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9789004685123 (hardback)
9789004685130 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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