Giuseppe Frola

He studied at the University of Turin, in the School of Law, where he graduated with honors by working with Francesco Ruffini on a thesis that dealt with Canavese statutes, a subject that would later also be covered in several articles published in Ferdinando Gabotto's journal.

He devoted his activity, in this early stage, mainly to historical and historical-legal[1] research particularly related to the Canavese and the statutes found in the various communities in the area.

It was from these pieces of researches that he hypothesized a publication on the history of the statutes of the Canavese communities based on archival and library documents, including numerous manuscripts, which took him to Rome where he frequented the intellectual circles of the capital.

This collection of considerable historical interest "offers valuable study material for the knowledge of the local legal discipline and for the most diverse testimonies of life and the rural society of a homogeneous territorial area such as Canavese between the late Middle Ages and the early modern age".

[1] Giuseppe Frola's works published in the collection Biblioteca della Società Storica Subalpina: