Lemme Avvocati Associati, deeply rooted in the juridical tradition of the capital, started in La Sapienza University palace, at the time the University headquarters, as decided by Alexander the 7th (founder of the Alessandrina Library), a refined building designed by a young Giacomo della Porta, before he was deputised to accomplish San Luigi dei Francesi’s façade and Trinità dei Monti, finally attaining S. Peter’s Cathedral dome, left uncomplete by Michelangelo, which died when he was almost ninety year-old.
In La Sapienza courtyard, where Borromini had obstinately built Sant’Ivo’s Church (in the catholic tradition, St Ivo is the protector of lawyers), in order to reproduce the elastic purity of the little façade of St. Carlino’s at the Quattro Fontane, the young Antonio Lemme, born in Molise, a small region in the southern central part of the country, was indeed achieving his course of studies, as a student of  Professor Antonio Salandra, who had come back to the educational profession, after his disappointing political experience, leading Italy to the Big War. During those tormented years, his teachers had been Vittorio Scialoja, Minister of Justice under Sonnino’s Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Nitti’s Government, Cesare Vivante, founder of modern Commercial Law, Giuseppe Chiovenda (the jurist whose name  Antonio Segni liked to honour by renaming his native village Premosello-Chiovenda by a decree in 1959) Enrico Ferri (notable criminal law specialist, who had been a pupil of Lombroso, and whose same theories he had then being able to challenge very efficaciously).