IMPORTANT TREATY ON THE LEGAL CONCEPT OF FIDEICOMMISSUM IN MATTERS OF INHERITANCE LAW, THE BEST WORK OF THE ITALIAN JURIST MARCO ANTONIO PELLEGRINI

Pellegrini, Marco Antonio. De fideicommissis praesertim vniuersalibus, tractatus frequentissimus: Marci Antonii Peregrini, iurisconsulti praeclarissimi, [...]. Nunc primum in lucem editus.Cum summarijs, & indice locupletissimo. Venetiis: apud Rubertum Meiettum, 1595.

Folio (316x214 mm), full vellum binding, calligraphic title in black color at a three raised bands spine (rebacked with ancient colored paper); [36], 527 [i.e.531], [1] leaves. Title-page in red and black types, with a big woodcut printer device (two cocks pecking corn grains in a figured frame, with the motto: Non comedetis fruges mendacii). Xylographic initials, head- and final-pieces and ornaments. Text in two columns.

One of the most durable concepts in Roman law, fideicommissum involves situations in which something is committed to somebody's trust. It is central to the law concerning testators, one of the bases of the inheritance law on which was regulated the transfer of family property.

Marco Antonio Pellegrini (Marcus Antonius Peregrinus; 1530-1616), a tax attorney and jurist of the Republic of Venice, was a professor of civil law at the University of Padua and had important public offices for the Republic of Venice, gaining notoriety in the late sixteenth century with several legal treaties published until eighteenth century.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.
Handwritten ownership inscription at title-page, not readable.

References: IT\ICCU\BVEE\021434 and IT\ICCU\RLZE\033641. OCLC, 799509311 and 23150866 (2 copies in USA).

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