La nozione di sovranità fra Bartolo e i moderni. riflessioni di un costituzionalista

he Author seeks to demonstrate that Bartolo da Sassoferrato, a cele- brated Italian jurist of the Middle Age, anticipated notions and cathegories that will become common in modern times. ‘Sovereignty’ is perhaps the most im- portant of these cathegories, although a strong effort is needed to contextualize the use of such word in Bartolo’s thought. The paper attempts to show that such effort is required even with respect to the question of how Bartolo distinguished the exertion of power according of whether it amounted to a tyrannical use.