摘要:Pietro Torelli has been an archivist and a scholar of the juridical and social history of Middle Ages. He still stands as a figure both important and “enigmatic” in the Italian medieval research of the first half of the twentieth century: spanning from the fine analysis of Accursius’ Glossa to the unfinished masterpiece on the commune of Mantova, his most significant contributions have left a still complex and sometimes controversial trace in the Italian historiographical tradition.