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Il ruolo di Galeria Valeria nelle dinamiche della politica tetrarchica
2020
Il lavoro si incentra sulla figura di Galeria Valeria, figlia di Diocleziano e moglie di Galerio. Un’attenzione particolare è stata riservata a Galeria come moglie e madre: l’analisi si sofferma sulla notizia del retore Lattanzio inerente alla sterilità di Galeria Valeria e alla conseguente adozione di un figlio, Candidiano, che Galerio avrebbe avuto dall’unione con una concubina, aprendo un ampio excursus su problematiche di carattere giuridico quali l’adoptio/adrogatio, la legittimazione, il iustum matrimonium e il concubinato. Si cerca poi di affrontare la complessa questione riguardante l’adesione o meno da parte della donna al cristianesimo, anche mediante l’analisi comparativa del tes…
Galerio. Il tetrarca infine tollerante
2017
This volume offers a political biography of Galerius, which sets free the image of the tetrarch, too often considered a person who lived in the penumbra of Diocletian, and restores to his actions their own internal consistency and organic evolution over time. Without losing sight of realities inherent in the multiplicity of the tetrarchs and in the development of the tetrarchy as an institution, this work focuses attention on Galerius in order to restore to him an image of autonomy which is not necessarily linked to the other protagonists in the drama in order to highlight each situation in which Galerius was successful at creating his own way. The goal has been to reconstruct policies that…
La svolta galeriana prima e dopo l’editto di Serdica
2016
The crisis of the third century helped to create conditions for a change in terms of relations between the Roman Empire and Christianity, whose spread resulted, in the upper echelons of the State, in an awareness of the extent of the phenomenon. The measures that Roman State authorities took against Christianity were a reaction to this dangerous threat; among them, in the specific case of this paper, we focus on the persecution triggered – according to Lactantius – by the Caesar Galerius under the senior Augustus Diocletian. The same Galerius as Augustus was responsible for the formal act that put an end to persecutions: the edict of Serdica (or of Nicomedia), issued on 30 April of year 311…