AMMIRATO, SCIPIONE. - Historian, b. at Lecce on 27 Sept. 1531, d. at Florence in 1601; his ancestors, originally from Florence, had moved to Lecce in the retinue of Charles of Anjou. He led an adventurous life and served several people as secretary. He received the minor orders, and finally found peace and tranquil activity in the Florence of Cosimo I. The latter gave him the task, in 1570, of writing the entire history of Florence, which he recounted in 35 books, from its origins up to the death of Cosimo (1574). He was very industrious and wrote a great deal, but the Discorsi su Tacito and the Storie Fiorentine are considered his most important works. He has no new con-
a document for legal purposes, etc., can take on the character of so many legal institutions.
Setting aside the antiquated or less used meanings in our language, three institutions of canon law deserve mention: the admissio ad officium ecclesiasticum, the admissio in religionem and the admissio libelli litis introductorii.
The admissio ad officium ecclesiasticum (can. 148, § 1) occurs in the case in which the superior consents to the postulation, that is, to the assumption of an office by one who would be barred from it by ecclesiastical law, from which it is customary to grant a dispensation (can. 179 ff.). In itself such admission has no peculiar importance except insofar as it follows the special requirements of postulation (v. POSTULAZIONE).
The admissio in religionem is the parallel institution to incardination (v. INCARDINAZIONE) and to adscriptio and provides the subject matter for the whole of tit. XI of book I of the CIC. It properly refers to three distinct, though connected and consecutive, phases of entry into religious life: postulancy (cann. 539-41), novitiate (cann. 542-71), profession (cann. 572-86). And although not all the canons cited concern directly the act of admission, nor can all be referred to its effect, nevertheless all of them fall within the scope either of that act or of that effect. Not for nothing is the title inscribed de admissione in religionem and has a preliminary canon (can. 538) from which the whole title draws its inspiration. For practice, the conditions prescribed for admission to the novitiate (can. 542) and for admission to profession (can. 572) deserve particular examination.
The admissio libelli litis introductorii is an institution characteristic of the canonical process, especially the contentious process, in the first phase of the introduction of the case. It is prescribed in fact that the judge, having received the introductory libellus of the suit or the oral petition (cann. 1706-1708), after preliminary examination, must rule, within a month, on its admission or non-admission (cann. 1709-10).