Il Codice Estense del 1771 alla prova di un anniversario: lo stato dell'arte

The essay aims to critically summarize what historiography has written on the Este code: from the influence that Muratori had up to the first attempts at codification; from the preparatory work to the structure of the code itself; ending with the protagonists of the codification in Modena. Among these, the jurist Bartolomeo Valdrighi, whose story is exemplary in the context of eighteenth-century culture, not only for his training and career, but also for the difficult relations with the Duke of Modena.