Codice di Napoleone, Firenze, 1806
Wanted by Napoleon, the French civil code is the encoding model for many countries in the world, the first code in the modern sense, that puts an end to the Old Regime legal tradition and its particularism, derived from the now surpassed common law, and it sets out the most important achievements of the revolution: the equality of citizens before the law, the abolition of feudalism, the right to property - especially important for the middle class, which had asserted itself with the revolution.
The Florentine edition printed by Guglielmo PIatti presents the citation of passages from the Corpus Iuris at the bottom of the articles of the code. In the page that follows the title page Napoleon's decree is printed and signed by the Minister of Justice Count Luosi who approved the translations of the Code and set the entry into force on 1 April 1806 and provided that on such date all 'the Roman laws, ordinances, general or local custom, statutes or regulations in matters that are the object of the provisions of this code ' ceased to be in force.
This is the epilogue of a story that began seven centuries before.