BRANDILEONE, FRANCESCO. - Legal historian, b. at Buonabitacolo (Salerno) on 25 January 1858; d. at Naples on 10 April 1929. He taught the History of Italian law at the universities of Sassari (1886), Parma, Bologna and Rome. The chief part of his scholarly labor was directed to the study of Byzantine law, with particular regard to its development and its application in Italy.
On this subject he wrote: Il diritto romano nelle leggi romano-veve del regno di Sicilia (Turin 1884); Il diritto bizantino nell'Italia meridionale dal sec. VIII al XII (Bologna 1886); the edition of the Prochiron Legum (1895); as well as various studies on particular topics. To canon law, which he regarded as the predominant historical factor in the formation of Italian law, he devoted part of the following studies: Sulla storia e la natura della donatio propter nuptias, Bologna 1891 (and Naples 1900); Rapporti patrimoniali tra coniugi, Modena 1901 (offprint from the Arch. giur., vol. 67); Saggi sulla storia della celebrazione del matrimonio (Milan 1906); I lasciti per l'anima e la loro trasformazione (Venice 1911; offprint from the Memorie dell'Istituto Veneto, vol. 28); Nota preliminare sull'origine della Stantia o Convenientia, Rome 1923 (offprint from the Rendiconti Acc. Lincei [Classe sc. mor. stor. fil., 5th series, vol. 32]).
Antonio Rota