The Croce Law of 1922 and the Capri International Conference on Landscape

In search of roots of environmental law in yesterday's world

Abstract

With the so-called Croce law of 1922, close to the advent of fascism in
Italy, there is the first attempt at an aesthetic and ideal
transposition of the landscape into a material dimension. Of particular
interest is the goal of achieving an intersection between aesthetic and
material values, which try to find a synthesis on the level of legal
certainty and effectiveness through the determination of principles and
rules. From the mere contemplation of beauty to the protection of goods
through the qualification and protection of legal positions. The text
presented, in the same year, at the International Conference on the
Landscape in Capri, marks one of the last acts of defence of a European,
and mind you not Western, culture, which sees the central European
perimeter (Munich-Vienna-Prague) as the protagonist, where the sense of
tradition is at its base, addressing the spiritual growth of the
personality, where even the process of economic development, free from
vulgar inculture, is functional to it.