SCHIAPPOLI, DOMENICO. - Jurist, b. at S. Biase (Campobasso) on 26 Nov. 1870, d. at Naples on 12 May 1945. A lecturer in ecclesiastical law in 1894 at the University of Naples, in 1896 he became a tenured professor of the same discipline at the University of Macerata. Called in 1901 to the University of Pavia, in 1911 he moved to that of Naples to succeed Francesco Scaduto, and remained there for thirty years.
Schiappoli, a devoted pupil of Scaduto (v.), was always very close to his master in his conceptions and in his scientific approach: he followed his tendency to separate the study of the law of the State from that of the Church and to consider ecclesiastical law a branch of public law, with the natural consequence of an identity of method in the treatment and in the applicability to the institutions of this law of the notions and rules proper to administrative law.
With Scaduto and Ruffini, he shares the merit of having restored ecclesiastical law to the position that was its due within the Italian Universities. Among his principal works should be remembered: Diritto ecclesiastico vigente in Francia, I, Turin, 1892; II, ibid. 1893; La prescrizione del diritto di patronato: teoria canonistica e diritto vigente (ibid. 1894); L'indirizzo odierno del diritto ecclesiastico (Naples 1895); Le congrue ed i supplementi di congrue ai parroci: studio giuridico (Turin 1898); Manuale di diritto ecclesiastico (ibid. 1902, with subsequent editions); Diritto penale canonico (in Enc. del dir. pen. ital., edited by E. Pessina, I, Milan 1904-1905); Diritto ecclesiastico (Naples 1912); Il matrimonio nel diritto canonico (ibid. 1929); Corso di diritto ecclesiastico 1929-30 (ibid. 1930); Il matrimonio secondo il diritto canonico e la legislazione concordataria italiana (ibid. 1932); Manuale di diritto ecclesiastico (ibid. 1934); Corso di diritto ecclesiastico 1940-41 (ibid. 1940).
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