Stefano Solimano
Understanding the figure of Francesco Saverio Bianchi-whether for his manifold activities, or for his long earthly sojourn that brought him to witness and participate to the various seasons of the European juridical science from the 1840s to the beginning of 1900, or yet for the impressive number of papers and books he uninterruptedly wrote for half a century- means to be able to delineate the profile of the Italian jurist who shifted between two juridical experiences, the pre-unitary one, which formed him, and the national one. This paper will consider the figure of Bianchi as a theorist of civil law, trying to catch the evolution of his throught, which is also made changes of mind, as we shall see with reference to the crucial and extremely sensitive problem of the judge-law relationship....