The Circulation of the École romande du droit naturel in Eighteenth-Century Italy

This chapter investigates how some of the key texts of the so called école romande du droit naturel were translated, received and used in the Italian context during the long eighteenth century.1 The circulation of Emer de Vattel’s treatise on the law of nations, Le droit des gens (1758), will be considered together with Jean Barbeyrac’s translations of Pufendorf ’s writings and with the various editions of JeanJacques Burlamaqui’s works.2 The école romande had a great influence on the propagation of theories of natural law and law of