TOMMASINI IN THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIFE OF TRIESTE. At the end of the XVIII century Trieste was a small town with a population of about 30.000 inhabitans. The father of Tommasini came to Trieste in 1781 as a consul of the granducate of Tuscany and Muzio Tommasini was born in Trieste in 1794. He studied in Trieste, Ljubljana (as a pupil of the well known botanist Hladnik) and Vienna where he was in contact whith Host (the Author of the fundamental Flora Austriaca, 1827-1831) but finally he became a doctor in law and performed his civil career as a magistrate. Appointed to the government in 1827, Tommasini was particularly for two decades; concerned with the sanitary problems of the impetuously growing town at the same time he explored throroughly the local flora, collected an important herbarium and published the results of several botanical investigations. After the introduction of the constitution in 1850 Tommasini was elected as the first Mayor of the town and occupied this role until 1861. In these years the town developed as the principal trade centre of the Austrian Empire and the population grew to 100.000 people; otherwise the political success hindered Tommasini from elaborating a synthetic work about the flora and vegetation of the Illyrian region.
Summarium Postquam super administrationis actibus in Ecclesiae ordinatione controlem iurisdictionale institutum et de quaestionibus ei adnexis doctrinale studium (a Vaticano 11 incitatum) subsecutum est, canonistarum attentio etiam comprehendit alias partes iuris administrativi, procedimentum praesertim administrativum_ Hoc institutum varia munera gerit vel in administrationis actuositatem in se, expedit enim organum agens ut maiori notitia ac cogitatione deliberet, vel in eos qui administrantur, eis enim praebet occasionem communicandi gressus parantes procedimentos. Communicatione procedimenti ii qui administrantur (vel singillatim vel in socialibus conventis per SUOs repraesentantes), praecisa crebro necessitate gradus contentiosi ad impugnationem, sua iura satius tueri possunt et opus collaborationis et participationis in administrativa functione adhibere. • Omnes eiusmodi aspectus prae oculis habendi sunt in ordinamento canonico, in quo peculiare momentum assumit fidelium participatio muneris regendi, instrumento pro ecclesialis communionis aedificatione. Fidelium participatio in procedimento iam provisa est in vigenti lure Canonico et fraequentior in postconciliari legislatione tendit. Administrationis activitatem moderari optime videtur fieri per legem generalem de procedimento, Sicut in pluribus europaeae civilizationis nationibus contigit et Pontificia Commissio Codici iuris canonici recognoscendo facere conatur. Schema autem Canonum ab hac Commissione confectum se continet in quibusdam definiendis cautionibus pro iuribus individuorum, nulla sollicitudine pro maiori fidelium participatione ne in administrativa functione augenda. --- Abstract After the institutioll of the jurisdictional control over the administrative processes in the jurdical system of the Church, and the inmediate doctrinal interest (stimulated by the Vatican 11) for all the problems related with it, the attention of the specialists in Canon Law has al so been extended to several other branches of the administrative law, particularly, the administrative procedure. This Institute has different functions: it is envolved in the administrative activity itself because it helps the competent agent to deliberate with more precision and reflection. In what refers to the private individuals, the Institute gives them an opportunity to intervene in the preparatory phase of the procedure. Therefore, the private individuals (or social groups through their representatives) can protect their own rights better, frequently avoiding the contentious phase of the impugnation. The private individuals cooperate and participate in the administrative function. AII these aspects must also be present in the canonical system in which the participation of the faithful in the munus regendi has a very special importante as an instrument for the construction of the ecc!esiastical comnrunio. The participation of the faithfui in the procedure has already been foreseen in the Canon Law in force, and it tends to be more frequent in the post-conciliar legislation. It seems that the best way of organising the administrativeactivity consists in a general law on the procedure, as it has happened in many countries, and as the Pontificia Commissio Codici iuris canonici recognoscendo is trying to do. However, the Schema Canonum elaborated by this Comission limits itself to set some guarantees for the rights of the individuals, without worrying about fosterihg a greater participation of the faithful in the administrative function.