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La scienza della legislazione

1780/1785 Subjects: Human rights, Law, Politics and government Forms: Banned works, Essays Translation Status: Source-text Italian Naples

Contributions

Gaetano Filangieri
author
Filippo Raimondi
publisher

Related resources

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La science de la législation translation
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Analysis of the Science of Legislation, from the Italian of the Chevalier Filangieri translation has paratext

Notes

A work of enlightenment legal theory written by the Neapolitan lawyer and freemason, Filangieri, immediately popular across Europe upon publication. Its intention, well within the enlightenment mainstream, of reforming law on a rational basis had a radically republican thrust in the context of southern Italian aristocratic regimes. The book is a constitutional republican programme, inspired by the American revolution. The universalist claims of this legal system indicate a cosmopolitanism.

See Vincenzo Ferrone, 'La società giusta ed equa. Repubblicanesimo e diritti dell´uomo in Gaetano Filangieri', Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.