Year: 2019
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of the research on the reception of Barbeyrac’s, Burlamaqui’s and Vattel’s works on the law of nature and nations. It examines how these key texts of the école romande du droit naturel were received and used in eighteenth-century Italy. The peculiar situation in the Italian peninsula, marked by the presence of a plurality of very different political regimes, constituted the context for enlightened debates on natural law, diplomacy and the law of nations. Discussions were often stimulated by texts that came from outside Italy. These, translated and annotated, aroused considerable interest in theories on social contract, sovereignty, constitutions, and the relationship between state and religion. The école romande du droit naturel had a major impact on these debates.
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina
Institution: University of Zurich
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4251722312