'Diceologia' dantesca e diritto romano: il ius, il sacrum, la punitio Christi

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Abstract

The essay focusses on the concepts of human and divine justice emerg-ing from Dante's political, legal and theological thought. It also deals with the role concretely played by Roman law within the framework of such concepts: after an-alysing the critical remarks Dante addresses to Celsus's definition of ius, as well as his revaluation of the term sacrum, the last paragraphs discuss the trial of Jesus in the context of the treatise on the Monarchia.