GALANTE, ANDREA. - Jurist, b. at Casale Monferrato on 30 July 1871, d. at Rome on 26 July 1919. A pupil of Francesco Ruffini, from whose school illustrious representatives of Italian legal science emerged, he was professor of ecclesiastical law at the University of Innsbruck and, in 1916, was called to succeed Francesco Brandileone in the chair of ecclesiastical law at the University of Bologna; an appointment that met with general approval, since G. was regarded as the most worthy man to teach in the city to which belongs the title of mother of Italian legal science.
He devoted his whole life to study, even during the period in which, during the First World War, he held high political and administrative offices. Of his substantial output, the following are remembered: Il diritto di placizione e l'economato dei benefici vacanti in Lombardia (Milan 1894); La condizione giuridica delle cose sacre (Turin 1903); L'esequatur ed il place nella evoluzione storica e nel diritto vigente (Milan 1909); Il diritto degli ecclesiastici nelle nuove terre d'Italia (Bologna 1916).
Of particular interest, and such that its consultation cannot be omitted by those who devote themselves to these studies, is the Manuale di diritto ecclesiastico (Milan 1915, 2nd ed. edited by A. C. Jemolo, ibid. 1923), in which the fundamental principles of the law of the Church and those of the law of the State in ecclesiastical matters are set out concisely and systematically, with regard to historical evolution and the norms in force.
Lorenzo Spinelli