Biagio Brugi

Biagio Brugi (1855 to 1934) was an Italian jurist and a student of Filippo Serafini who taught Roman law at Catania from 1882, Padua from 1885 and Pisa from 1918 to 1930. His works underline the relevance of Roman law for contemporary jurisprudence, and his influential 1891 textbook Introduzione enciclopedica alle scienze giuridiche e sociali nel sistema della giurisprudenza emphasised the importance of research in the political and social sciences for the study of law. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Istituto Veneto and several foreign academies, as well as of government commissions, and in 1928 he was made a senator for life.