Jacques Cujas e la lettera scomparsa: Una vicenda tra apocrifia e storia

In 1570, Jacques Cujas published Books IX-XI of the Observationes et emendationes, which included a previously unpublished letter from Emperor Justinian addressed to General Narses, the patrician tasked with reorganizing the territory in Italy following the definitive defeat of Totila. Through this measure, a beneficium in the strict sense, the emperor ordered Narses to restore the Titiones brothers, in reward for their heroic military service in the Gothic War, to their former estates in n...