Renzo Rossi

The paper concerns the change of circumstances in the contract as considered by the latest Italian civil code reform project. In the past, the Italian doctrine, in order to overcome the rigidity of the rules on resolution of contracts, elaborated a preterlegal figure, the ‘‘presupposizione’’, able to free the parties from the contractual bond, similarly to other European legal systems (frustration of contract in common law, Wegfall der Geschäftsgrundlage in Germany, imprévision in France)...