Edoardo Volterra
Edoardo Volterra (1904–1984) was an Italian scholar of Roman law. Son of the distinguished Italian mathematician Vito Volterra, Edoardo Volterra held a series of teaching positions at the Universities of Cagliari, Camerino, Pisa, and Bologna before finally accepting a call to the Sapienza University of Rome.[1] He published works on a variety of topics on Roman law. His first major work was on the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum.[2] Volterra later went on to publish an array of works on Roman marriage law, Roman private law, and laws of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World.
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Opposed to the rise of fascism, the Jewish Volterra was forced out of his position in 1938.[3] He joined an anti-fascist partisan organization (the Partito d'Azione or "Action party") and was decorated for bravery in combat against fascist forces.[1] After the end of World War II, he was made Rector of the University of Bologna for two years and then he returned to the Sapienza University of Rome as a professor.[3] In 1971, several of his students published the six-volume Studi in onore di Edoardo Volterra in his honor.[4] Volterra died in 1984.[1] The "Project Volterra," an international scholarly collaborative project named in his honor, provides an internet resource for scholars working on topics in Roman law.[5]
Selected publications
- Edoardo Volterra, Collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum (Rome: Bardi, 1930).
- Edoardo Volterra, La conception du mariage d'après les juristes romains (Padua: La Garangola, 1940).
- Edoardo Volterra, Lezioni di diritto romano : il matrimonio romano (Rome: Edizioni Ricerche, 1961).
- Edoardo Volterra, Corso di lezioni: diritti dell'Oriente mediterraneo (Rome: Rome: Edizioni Ricerche, 1970).
- Edoardo Volterra, Istituzioni di diritto privato romano (Rome: Edizioni Ricerche, 1977).
- Edoardo Volterra, Sulla legge delle citazioni (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei,1983).
Honors
in 1973, he received an honorary degree from the University of Bordeaux.[6]
References
- Sturm, Fritz (1987). "Edoardo Volterra (1904–1984)". Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung (in German). 104 (1): 918–926. doi:10.7767/zrgra.1987.104.1.918.
- Robert M. Frakes, Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 57-58.
- "Volterra, Edoardo." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Nov. 2018 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
- L. Aru, et al., Studi in onore di Edoardo Volterra (Milan: Casa Editrice Dott. A. Giuffrè, 1971).
- "Projet Volterra". University College London.
- "Les Honoris Causa de 1973 à 2013". University of Bordeaux. Retrieved 27 October 2020. (in French)