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Ugo Stornaiolo S. │ @elosougui

Italo-banana republic lawyer in exile | Occasionally also writer & poet

Essay Compilations

Wandering Meanderings (Into the Idea of Love)
 
Wandering Meanderings (Into the Idea of Love): The Libertarian Catholic Essays (2023-2025)Ugo Stornaiolo S.PaperbackWandering Meanderings is a memoir-in-essays by a man between homelands, Catholic by anchor, boundless by culture, who keeps a passport in one pocket and notebook in the other. From Kraków trams, Viennese Mass, and Westminster corridors to nameless winter streets, these essays track how love, friendship, and meaning are made at human scale: slowly, locally, face to face. For him, beauty wrestles with the sublime, proximity argues with digital distance, and mentors, muses, and peers form the living triad of a life, as Erasmus and Thomas More hover like friendly ghosts, Lords Acton and Byron quarrel on his shoulders, and Leo Tolstoy and Mark Fisher speak across the dark. Travel becomes a way of thinking, and thinking a way of keeping faith with places and people. This is a conservative book of affections, a romantic book of cities, and a refusal of modern affectations. Attention is not love, algorithms aren’t providence, and abundance without presence is a desert. The remedy is old and demanding: fidelity to the near until meaning appears. Part travel log, part philosophical meditation and part confession, Wandering Meanderings invites anyone who has felt out of place yet alive to truth, beauty, and goodness to step back onto the pilgrim’s road into the idea of love itself.

Law Books

Achaean Disputes: Eight Centuries of Succession Conflicts for the Title of Prince of Achaea
 
Achaean Disputes: Eight Centuries of Succession Conflicts for the Title of Prince of AchaeaUgo Stornaiolo S.PaperbackThis study delves into the intricate succession landscape surrounding the medieval title of Prince of Achaea and the older associated dignity of King and Despot of Asia Minor, tracing their historical roots, and assessing its contemporary status if ever reclaimed by the Damalas family, senior direct-line heirs to the Genoese Zaccaria dynasty, last sovereign house to have used it as rulers of Achaea. The multidisciplinary research method used incorporates the review of recent genealogical studies, analysis of historical sources and medieval accounts, like the Chronicle of Morea and the Chronicle of the Tocco, to establish the title's nature, antiquity and succession history, and the application of historical Roman, Byzantine and Frankish Greek feudal law (the Assizes of Romania, in particular) to assess the legitimacy of competing claims for the title over time, particularly within the Zaccaria family and later by the Tocco lineage, and ultimately of modern comparative nobiliary law and elements of private law to discuss its theoretical rehabilitation in favor of the Damalas descendants of the Zaccaria Princes of Achaea.
Jueces como Soberanos: Una Exploración Jurídico-Política del Poder Supremo de la Corte Constitucional Ecuatoriana
 
Jueces como Soberanos: Jueces como Soberanos Una Exploración Jurídico-Política del Poder Supremo de la Corte Constitucional Ecuatoriana (Spanish Edition)Ugo Stornaiolo SilvaPaperbackPor lo dispuesto en la Constitución actualmente vigente, la Corte Constitucional ecuatoriana es una de las instituciones más importantes del diseño constitucional ecuatoriano, y sus extensos poderes, sin contrapesos o fiscalización, podrían sugerir que es un ente soberano dentro de nuestro país frente a una institucionalidad de poderes separados que no puede ejercer sus funciones fuera de su control. Sin embargo, la soberanía de la Corte Constitucional no es un fenómeno expreso, por lo que demostrar su condición soberana podría significar un cambio de paradigma en el entendimiento crítico de nuestro propio ordenamiento político y jurídico.
Jueces como Soberanos: Una Exploración Jurídico-Política del Poder Supremo de la Corte Constitucional Ecuatoriana (Spanish Edition)Ugo Stornaiolo SilvaEbookPor lo dispuesto en la Constitución actualmente vigente, la Corte Constitucional ecuatoriana es una de las instituciones más importantes del diseño constitucional ecuatoriano, y sus extensos poderes, sin contrapesos o fiscalización, podrían sugerir que es un ente soberano dentro de nuestro país frente a una institucionalidad de poderes separados que no puede ejercer sus funciones fuera de su control. Sin embargo, la soberanía de la Corte Constitucional no es un fenómeno expreso, por lo que demostrar su condición soberana podría significar un cambio de paradigma en el entendimiento crítico de nuestro propio ordenamiento político y jurídico.

Poetry Books

Amber Eyes: A Story in Twenty-Seven Poems
 
Amber Eyes: A Story in Twenty-Seven PoemsUgo Stornaiolo S.PaperbackAmber Eyes is an exploration of the volatile landscape of human emotion in an evocative story that charts a profound romantic connection between passion and distance. This collection of poems captures the tension between the urge to stay and the necessity of release, portraying love not as a static state, but as a series of somersaults through faith, pain, and yearning. Part original compositions and part adaptations inspired from others, Amber Eyes is an honest, often bruising confession of a heart laid bare.
Princely Rhymes: A Collection of Poems
 
Princely Rhymes: A Collection of PoemsUgo Stornaiolo S.PaperbackWith poems born out of love and heartbreak, and against the background of historical figures, exotic landscapes and my own internal struggles with my emotions, this poetry collection looks to show how beauty can be found and created through my hopes and my pains, inspired by the different muses I've found so far in my short life.

Articles, Essays, Publications

Research Papers on SSRN
Mises Institute
Statement.com Archive
The Libertarian Catholic
The Miskatonian

Videos/Interviews

Navarra Confidencial, on Youtube
 

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