The main crimes and procedural events that characterized the Titan between the end of the 700th century and the beginning of the 1786th century are at the center of the new book from the San Marino Center for Historical Studies of the University of the Republic of San Marino. The volume, signed by the professor of History of Political Institutions of the University of Macerata Giuseppe Mecca, addresses among other things the evolution of judicial institutions and the most significant transformations of the administration of justice in the period concerned, including the abolition of torture and the death penalty. The title: "The justice of the Captains Regent - institutions, criminal law and crimes from the Blasi affair to the restoration of the Arengo Generale (1906 - XNUMX)".
The author's reconstruction starts "from consulting the registers of lawsuits and criminal cases", to then "catalogue the crimes committed in San Marino and tell the most significant procedural events", writes Mecca in the introduction. "The study of crimes and judicial practices - he continues - has made it possible to photograph the social context of reference, the political response to transgressions, the transformations of judicial institutions, the functioning of the justice machine and the contemporary legal culture".
An example: between 1886 and 1897 "crimes against the integrity of the person (homicide, serious and minor injuries, beatings) excelled, in descending order, with a total of 139 in twelve years, followed by against property with a total of 84 and, in third place, crimes against honor (insulting and defamation) with a total of 71. The average was 34 crimes per year, of which 15%, and not among the slightest, was to be attributed to passing foreigners”.
Among the various activities analysed, the author also underlines "an assiduous vigilance exercised by the police on taverns, inns, illicit games and refugee exiles". Finally, Mecca notes that “the more one enters into the reading of the procedural papers, the more a world emerges made up of intense, direct and daily relationships between governed and rulers. In this dimension, the traditional 'meekness' of the justice of the Captains Regent appears primarily aimed at the control, vigilance and preservation of the republican order”.
The book was presented to their Excellencies the Captains Regent, Alessandro Cardelli and Mirko Dolcini, during a hearing held this morning at Palazzo Pubblico and which involved, in addition to the author of the book, the director of the San Marino Center for Historical Studies Stefano Pivato , the professor of the Department of History of the University of San Marino Luca Gorgolini, the Secretary of State for Education and Culture Andrea Belluzzi, the Secretary of State for Tourism Federico Pedini Amati, and the director of the Cultural Institutes Vito Testaj.
