Collaboratori ebrei di Salvatore Riccobono

During the 1930s, the jurist Salvatore Riccobono, member of the Accademia d’Italia, was entrusted with various projects for the edition of sources and the coordination of scientific initiatives. Among these were the projects for the Palingenesis of the Imperial Constitutions and the celebration of Augustus’ bimillennial. In carrying out these scholarly initiatives Riccobono availed himself of (more or less) younger scholars, who were involved in various ways. Some of these were discriminated against for racial reasons, such as Edoardo Volterra, whom Riccobono supported intensively after 1938, and other two researchers: Rosanna Morpurgo and Walter Stern. Nevertheless, the analysis of the Biondo Biondi Fund, kept at the Central Library of the Catholic University of Milan, now allows to examine how Riccobono also supported, and involved in his own research initiatives, the Polish Jewish scholar Adolf Berger (1882-1962), who had already been a libero docente in Institutions of Roman Law at the Sapienza University of Rome before the outbreak of the First World War.