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review. In August 1231, at Melfi, the Emperor issued his new
constitutions for the Kingdom of Sicily. Not since the reign of
the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the 6th century had the
administrative law of a European state been codified.
Frederick’s codes contained many ideas that anticipated
enlightened absolutism and the centralization of the state.
During the same time, however, Frederick could not... Pietro
della Vigna ...him to Frederick, who made him a court notary.
From 1225 to 1234, he served as a judge in the Magna Curia (high
court) of Sicily, in which role he became the principal author
of the constitution of Melfi (1231), a legal code that
systematized Norman law, superimposing the new Hohenstaufen
absolutism. The code was written in the elegant Latin style for
which Pietro became famous. An exponent of... effec