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«Non oportet litigare: sed mansuetum esse ad omnes». Considerazioni sul valore normativo e religioso delle paci private
2023
The aim of this article is to investigate the religious and theological aspects related to the medieval practice of peacemaking. Pacta de crimine are legally justified by Roman sources (C. 2,4,18) but they are also characterised by the mes-sianic significance of peace. This paper considers the heritage of classical culture and theology analysing the normative experience of the commune of Perugia.
Il vendicatore imperfetto:Egisto nella riscrittura senecana
2009
This paper analyses the transformation of Aegisthus character in Seneca's Agamemnon. In this drama, the son of Thyestes, born by incest, becomes a type of corrupted avenger, whose heroic imperfection carries out the revenge on Agamemnon in the peculiar way of his father, that is to say by adultery and blood confusion. The role of Aegisthus in the play shows clearly the cultural meaning attributed from Seneca to the plot of vengeance: if Greek revenge was "a solution", a form of necessary repayment to a violation, restoring the regularity of cosmos, Senecan revenge is a criminal competition establishing the chaos, corresponding to virtutum certamen that, in Roman society, opposed fathers and…