During the Middle Ages and the Age of Humanism, the study of Roman law is not connected with an interest for the single Roman jurists: the Literargeschichte of the law is completely neglected, or remains very occasional. In the fourteenth century, Guglielmo da Pastrengo, a friend of Petrarch, seems to be an exception to the rule: his De Viris Illustribus contains a vast amount of items concerning ancient Roman jurists; also, using the Digesto, Guglielmo tries to reconstruct the canon of their works. During the fifteenth century, although the interest for the Latinitas of the jurists increases, there was no peculiar attention for the historical development of Law Literature. In a 1491 letter to Jacopo Modesti (published here with a commentary), Angelo Poliziano is the first who tries to write a brief, but accurate, Literargeschichte of the Roman law.
Liste di giuristi romani tra Guglielmo da Pastrengo e Angelo Poliziano (con l’edizione di una lettera del Poliziano a Iacopo Modesti)
MODONUTTI, RINO
2017
Abstract
During the Middle Ages and the Age of Humanism, the study of Roman law is not connected with an interest for the single Roman jurists: the Literargeschichte of the law is completely neglected, or remains very occasional. In the fourteenth century, Guglielmo da Pastrengo, a friend of Petrarch, seems to be an exception to the rule: his De Viris Illustribus contains a vast amount of items concerning ancient Roman jurists; also, using the Digesto, Guglielmo tries to reconstruct the canon of their works. During the fifteenth century, although the interest for the Latinitas of the jurists increases, there was no peculiar attention for the historical development of Law Literature. In a 1491 letter to Jacopo Modesti (published here with a commentary), Angelo Poliziano is the first who tries to write a brief, but accurate, Literargeschichte of the Roman law.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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