Ludovico Fulci was a lawyer and professor of jurisprudence from Sicily who became a national Italian politician.
16 Facts About Ludovico Fulci
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Ludovico Fulci was born in Santa Lucia del Mela, a small municipality located in the hills to the west of the provincial capital, Messina.
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Ludovico Fulci was the son of Antonio Fulci by his marriage to Nicolina Taccone, who was of aristocratic provenance.
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Ludovico Fulci was a family name which he shared both with his uncle and with his grandfather.
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Ludovico Fulci graduated with a degree in law from the University of Messina and in 1873 launched himself as a criminal lawyer.
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Ludovico Fulci sustained an academic interest in the law, evidenced by the publication in 1879 of his brief but challenging volume "Di alcuni problemi giuridici fondamentali".
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Ludovico Fulci obtained a professorship in criminal law at the university in 1891.
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Ludovico Fulci was re-elected at no fewer than nine subsequent general elections, the last of them being that of 18 July 1909.
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Political parties within the parliament during this period were still relatively loose groupings, but Ludovico Fulci is normally classified in sources as a Radical Party member.
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Ludovico Fulci combined his university teaching and his national political duties with membership of the Provincial Council for Messina, of which he became vice-president.
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Ludovico Fulci was part of the parliamentary sub-committee that produced the final draft of the new 1887 Criminal Procedure Code.
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Ludovico Fulci's arguments reveal a delight in the legal and moral complexities involved, but he was not in favour of extending the role of the judge in a criminal trial beyond point at which guilt or innocence are to be determined.
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Ludovico Fulci nevertheless accepted nomination as a senator on 6 October 1919.
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Either criterion would have secured an invitation to join the senate, but it would still have been open to Ludovico Fulci to reject the offer which, formally, came from the king.
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Ludovico Fulci was formally sworn in on 27 December 1919.
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Ludovico Fulci served as a deputy between 1892 and 1908, and as a junior government minister between 1901 and 1903.