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Edoardo Volterra
Italian jurist and partisan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]