10/12/2024 – Paolo Moro, Iconology of Justice. Rhetoric and Law in The Calumny by Sandro Botticelli
This contribution proposes a rhetorical reading of The Calumny by Sandro Botticelli, a tempera painting on panel executed between 1494 and 1497 and preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Recovering the classical interpretation of trial in Renaissance culture, Botticelli defines the legal value of Justice through the figure of antithesis, depicting the form of an unfair trial and the oblivion of truth in judgment. Botticelli employs an ekphrastic technique, typical of Greek culture, and reinterprets mythology using a modern language.
The explanation follows three methodological levels of inquiry into the work: 1) an analysis of the origin of painting in the literary genre of rhetorical ékphrasis in Greek culture and during the Renaissance; 2) an iconographic description of an unfair trial, represented by The Calumny, through the exegesis of the meaning of rhetorical forms, historical context, and allegorical figures; 3) an iconological interpretation of the painting (in the sense of Erwin Panofsky) as a paradigm of the idea of classical in the modern age, achieved through the identification of eight dialectical oppositions in the figurative representation.
In conclusion, the study leads to three meanings (historical, cultural, and theoretical) that can be derived from the work by Botticelli on the concept of the classical. In this way, the value of the classical is explained through the relationship between truth and trial.
10/12/2024 – Roberto Garetto e Rubén Martinez Reche, Narrazioni leggendarie italo-spagnole come base per la costruzione del mito fondativo delle mafie: implicazioni giuridiche e letterarie nel contesto urbano contemporaneo [Italo-Spanish legendary narratives as the foundation for constructing the myth of the mafia: legal and literary implications in the contemporary urban context]
The common foundation of the Italian Southern mafias, according to popular legends still widely spread today, begins with the shipwreck of three Spanish brothers off the coast of Favignana Island in the 15th century. These legends constitute an attempt to culturally legitimise a non-state legal system that inherently stands in clear opposition to the State. The three brothers, noble knights, and members of the powerful Spanish brotherhood Hermandad de la Garduña, according to the legendary narrative, were fleeing Spain due to a crime of honour. In our research, we will focus on the origins of the legends, their connections to Spanish and Italian literary traditions, their sociological implications, the motivations behind their construction, the dissemination and use of the legends until they achieve mythical status, and above all, the relationship of the legendary narrative with the contemporary development of the Italian mafia. Indeed, despite the now predominantly urban or suburban scenario in which mafia organisations operate, the appeal of the deeds of the three knights – strategically idealised – seems to remain strong. The legal tools in the fight against mafias, therefore, cannot be limited to the punitive sphere but must foster a cultural renewal of the social fabric most exposed to the actions of mafia organisations.
05/12/2024 – Piero Marino, La ‘vera’ storia del Mercante. Legge, sacrificio e giustizia nella città di Venezia [The ‘true’ story of the Merchant. Law, sacrifice and justice in the city of Venice]
This short essay, starting from the mimetic theory of the French anthropologist René Girard, gives an interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The story of the contract signed between the Jew Shylock and the merchant Antonio takes place in the city of Venice and stages a real mimetic crisis that the Venetians overcome thanks to the sentence inflicted on the Jew, a real scapegoat of events. The essay, analyzing the relationship between sacrifice and justice, raises the question of whether the playwright’s verses represent an attempt to reveal the meaning of what René Girard has defined as texts of persecution or, rather, if they should be considered one of them.
02/12/2024 – Cecilia Conforti, La creatività urbana e il diritto in una prospettiva nazionale ed internazionale [Urban creativity and law in a national and international perspective]
This analysis of the complex relationship between urban creativity and law provides a comprehensive overview of a topic of great artistic and legal relevance. As an expressive form born and primarily developed in public spaces, urban creativity raises legal issues that often escape clear and defined regulation. The lack of specific legislation governing and protecting it as an art form leads to contradictions in legal actions taken against urban artists. In the first part of the article, a historical and artistic introduction to urban creativity is provided, exploring its origins, its protagonists, and the wide range of styles and techniques that characterize it. It is crucial to understand that urban creativity emerged as a form of expression intended for public spaces, and the occupation of such spaces constitutes a distinctive element of its nature. In the second part, the legal implications of urban creativity are addressed, examining the branches of law that could be involved in reflecting on this topic: constitutional law, criminal law, and civil law. In particular, the discipline of copyright law is analyzed at the international and national levels as the main means of protection available to urban artists. Finally, three emblematic cases are examined in the third part, illustrating the legal challenges and different dynamics that characterize the relationship between urban creativity and law. These cases include the legal saga of 5Pointz in New York, Banksy’s painting in Venice, and the mural dedicated to Ugo Russo in Naples, thus offering a comprehensive overview of the legal and artistic complexities that characterize this field.
20/11/2024 – Andrea Romeo, Narrazioni del diritto e dell’etica legale nella cultura cinematografica hollywoodiana [Narrations of Law and Legal Ethics in Hollywood movie culture]
Lawyers have always been a part of Hollywood movies, and this enables us to underline how the public, in certain historical periods, generally considers law and its practitioners. The paper aims to compare lawyer models and types, that the various jurisprudential theories of legal ethics debate provide, with models of lawyering sponsored by Hollywood movies, in order to highlight connections and mutual influence and to analyze how legal ethics and jurisprudential discussion may affect, and be affected by, cinematography as a workable mirror of society.
08/11/2024 – Agostino Petrillo, Henri Lefebvre e il diritto alla città: genesi e struttura di un diritto “prospettico” [Henri Lefebvre and the right to the city: genesis and structure of a “prospective” right] The concept of the “right to the city” stems from a long intellectual journey of the philosopher Henri Lefebvre, which we will attempt to reconstruct here in a broad outline. For Lefebvre, the right to the city is an essential component of the contemporary urban condition, located at a point outside the tradition of both “natural right” and “contractual right” theories. It is a right that belongs to the citizens, to the groups that make up the city, that is the direct fruit of the collective production of the urban, and represents the formal crystallisation of what the action of those who live in the city has built up over time.
08/11/2024 – Aberto Scerbo, La visibilità dell’invisibile: per una città inclusiva e una critica del politico e del giuridico nelle opere della Street Art [The visibility of the invisible: for an inclusive city and a critique of the political and the juridical in the works of Street Art] The article intends to underline how the subversive nature of street art highlights, with a simple and immediate language, the limits and contradictions of modernity. It then wants to avow its ability to give voice to the peripheries of the world to build inclusive city, but also to carry out a critical function with regards to politics and to denounce violations of rights.
08/11/2024 – Agostina Latino, Odonomastica: sostantivo singolare maschile [Odonomastics: masculine singular noun] Although odonomastics (crasis of two ancient Greek words ὁδός-hodós: street, road, path, way, and ὄνυμα- ónyma: name) is a feminine noun, in its practical declension, i.e. in its plastic representation in urban realities, it is predominantly (if not exclusively) masculine. The names of urban areas correspond to and give voice to two needs: the most obvious, pragmatic and objective, is orientation; the other, which, although pregnant, remains in filigree, as an ideological and subjective component, it satisfies the need for identification and information of the human community living in that territory, on the basis of historical, cultural, political and social (over)positions. Just as the failure to satisfy the first need leads to getting lost in urban routes (physical aspect), the insufficiency or inadequacy of the second implies a disorientation of identity due to the lack of reference paradigms (psychological aspect). The aim of this paper is to try to account for female (in)visibility in urban toponyms from a quantitative-qualitative point of view, reconstructing it at the same time from a de lege lata perspective, of the domestic legislation in force, and de lege ferenda, in the light of links with precepts of international law.
05/11/2024 – Giovanna Stanzione, L’importanza pratica del punto di vista estetico. La bellezza salverà il diritto (e le città)? [Will Beauty Save the Law (and the Cities)?] George Steiner wrote that language and art exist due to the presence of the Other, a concept shared with the law, which also derives its existence from the Other. Cities, too, are intricately connected to this concept, serving as aggregations of Others and primarily providing habitation for people. The verb “to inhabit,” as noted by Heidegger, embodies humanity’s relationship with the Earth, reflecting the essence of human nature. Similarly, lawyers, artists, and urban architects recognize the profound influence of ever-changing human nature on their work. Within this framework, an exploration of Beauty, as a fundamental aspect of human life, becomes unavoidable in legal and political fields.
28/10/2024 – Marzia De Donno, Dalla giustizia spaziale alla “giustizia” delle città e dei territori [From Spatial Justice to the “Justice” of Cities and Territories] Partendo dalle teorie sulla spatial justice e sulla legal geography elaborate in altri settori delle scienze sociali, con il contributo si sviluppano alcune riflessioni in ordine ad una loro traduzione giuridica nell’ambito dei processi di riforma e di riordino territoriale attualmente in atto nel nostro Paese. Soprattutto alla luce della tendenza, sviluppatasi a livello europeo, di definire e incentivare sistemi di governance territoriale differenziati e improntati a forme di cooperazione di tipo policentrico (c.d. functional regions), in conclusione si punta a dimostrare come un simile modello, anche tramite la relativizzazione dei confini amministrativi e il superamento di disparità territoriali che si coagulano all’interno dei territori – urbani e rurali –, possa essere preso concretamente in considerazione per assicurare la “giustizia” nei e tra i territori.
21/10/2024 – Antonella Massaro, Lo spazio della pena carceraria tra realtà e rappresentazione cinematografica [The space of prison punishment between reality and cinematic representation] The space of the prison punishment is a central element in understanding the prison as a total institution. The analysis of the penalty means not only to underline the characters of prison architecture, but also to examine the relationship between the prison structure and the urban space. The essay considers these aspects, also with a focus on the cinematographic representation of prison and life of prisoners.
26/09/2024 – Paola Scala, Maria Fierro, ICDS: Informal city design studio. Esperienze sullo spazio urbano contemporaneo [ICDS. Informal city design studio. Experiences on the contemporary urban space] The paper aims to narrate the ICDS (https://www.icdslab.com/), a research laboratory at the Department of Architecture of Federico II, which emerges as a place of experimentation to define the contribution of architecture schools in the construction of urban space as a site of relationships, capable of embracing the plural, informal, and fluid dimension of contemporary civitas. These experiences inquire into the “right to the city,” seeking to focus on the role of the architect as a figure capable of reading and interpreting contexts in their multidimensionality. Building upon these premises, ICDS utilizes informality as a tool to interpret the context and overcome an authorial approach that caters to the universal needs of the average man.
26/09/2024 – Claudia Atzeni, Racconti sul carcere, racconti dal carcere: il punto di vista interno hartiano e il metodo autoetnografico come strumenti di riflessione attorno allo ius puniendi [Stories about prison, stories from prison: the internal point of view and the autoethnographic method as tools for reflecting on the ius puniendi] «Welcome to our city». This is how Jake Oppenheimer welcomes Darrell Standing, the narrator of Il vagabondo delle stelle, who is locked up with Ed Morrell in an isolation cell in San Quentin prison, in a secret language consisting of brass knuckles debates on the wall. A city within the city, «a society unto itself» – as Salvatore Curatolo writes in his Ergastolo ostativo. Percorsi e strategie di sopravvivenza – the prison becomes the subject of the stories of those who live there or imagine living there. The aim of this contribution is to understand whether the story about prison and the story from prison can be considered fruitful tools for analysing the contemporary ius puniendi. In particular, we will examine whether it is possible to use Hart’s internal point of view and the autoethnographic method for a better understanding of prison reality.
10/09/2024 – Alina J. Wolski, Bridging Disciplines: Finding a Common Language in Law and Literature This paper highlights the importance of a methodological approach in “law and literature” research, noting that many analyses, especially those by students and young scholars, lack an introduction to their methodology. It emphasizes the need for a common language between legal and literary scholars to bridge their interdisciplinary gap. The paper provides a concise guideline on how to approach “law in literature” topics from a methodological perspective, stressing the importance of literary theory and context-specific interpretation. It suggests practical steps to define legal terms and clarify legal contexts, ensuring comprehensibility for both disciplines. The goal is to enhance mutual understanding and improve the quality of interdisciplinary analyses.
06/09/2024 – Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa, La città ostile. Princìpi filosofici per una critica materiale [The Hostile City. Philosophical Principles for a Material Critique] This contribution analyses the concept of the “hostile city” by formulating a critical framework focused on the artefactual dimension. The hostile city expresses the political will to stigmatise certain categories of subjects. To this end, the hostile city is disseminated with particular artefacts that make this hostilisation possible. The article proposes to elaborate a urban semeiotics, a science of symptoms capable of analysing the material structure of the city by focusing on elements that are insignificant at first sight. The article focuses on a particular political artefact characteristic of the hostile city, namely the bench on which it is impossible to rest.
03/09/2024 – Paola Chiarella, “Volte di pietra” e “archi rampanti”: architettura, destino e deliberazione morale in Notre-Dame de Paris [“Stone Vaults” and “Flying Buttresses”: Architecture, destiny and moral reasoning in Notre-Dame de Paris] In the pages of Notre-Dame de Paris, a tragedy in the form of a novel unfolds. The protagonists are crushed by the impact of fate, causing undeserved pain which they are unable to remedy. The passions that stir them are instruments of destiny, which moves at a decisive pace and determines moral and material catastrophes. Not even art is safe from fate. Architecture can do nothing to counteract the communicative and dissemination potential of Gutenberg’s press. The massive expressive conformation of architecture is replaced by the speed, economy and versatility of the printed book. The presses of Mainz inaugurated the “liquid” (Bauman) or, rather, “volatile” (Hugo) modernity of knowledge.
08/07/2024 – Alessandro Campo, La letteratura (e le humanities) come luoghi di emozioni giuridiche. Prospettive didattiche a partire dallo «spazio» Summer School in Law and Humanities di Cannes 2023 [Literature (and humanities) as places of legal emotions. Educational perspectives from the «space» Summer School in Law and Humanities in Cannes 2023] The link between law, humanities and emotions is related to legal pedagogy. The legal-humanistic pedagogy will therefore be investigated, reflecting on its potential to impact legal interpretation and contribute to community-building. The reflection will start from the experience of a concrete educational space (that of the Summer School in Law and Humanities developed in Cannes 2023) and its three theoretical-affective «spaces»: Lon Fuller’s cave, Plato’s cave and the cave of the metaverse. A literary analysis of these spaces will be carried out, providing some suggestions for a legal theory of emotions.
04/07/2024 – Alessandra Valastro, Vite in cerca di politiche. La narrazione biografica e autobiografica come risorsa e come metodo di un discorso sulla città [Lifes in search of politics. Biographical and autobiographical narrative as a resource and as a method of a discourse on the city] This paper proposes a reflection on the theme of the “right to the city” which recovers the value framework of social democracy inscribed in the Italian Constitution of 1948. To do this, a peculiar visual angle is used, which is the one which valorise the experience in a political sense, starting from biographical and autobiographical literature, with particular reference to that of urban planners. The observation point of view of the latter, when detached from the scientific nature of academic writings and entrusted to the more personal gaze of one’s own experience and one’s relationship with the city, opens up interpretations of great interest for the questions that a sustainable and reasonable government policy of the territories must be asked today. A particular focus is dedicated to the biographical and autobiographical writings of Enzo Scandurra, a highly sensitive urban planner who very effectively chose to combine the narrative of lives and places with the scientific one.
04/07/2024 – Domenico Bilotti, Bellezze a cielo aperto e a numero chiuso. Overtourism e profili di regolazione amministrativa e confessionale [Limited enrolment beauties and the in the open sky ones: overtourism and aspects concerning amministrative and confessional regulations] The tourist market had a fundamental role in promoting a new phase of economic revamping. Its ambition was openly faced and supported by the European financial assignments and it again became a crucial factor for Italian economics, because the country is worldwide well-known as one of the finest places to host both artistic and naturalistic holydays. This massive impact anyway has widely influenced the legal interests of internal and local communities day by day empathising the concurrency between two different figures: increasing masses of foreign visitors and declining percentages of disappointed residents. Law & religions approaches could lead distinctive and productive sustainable solutions.
26/06/2024 – Francesco Serpico, La città e i suoi margini. Manicomi e alienazione femminile Nel giardino della follia di Edmondo De Amicis [The City and its Margins. Asylums and Female Alienation in Edmondo De Amicis’ Giardino della follia] In 1899, Edmondo De Amicis published Nel giardino della follia (In the Garden of Madness): a narrative reportage about his encounter with women locked up within the walls of an asylum. By analyzing the narrative structure of De Amicis’ work, this contribution examines the relationship between the narrative of urban spaces and the medical and juridical discourse. The aim is to highlight the peculiar power relations underlying the labelling and categorisation of mental diseases on the eve of law no. 36 of 14 February 1904, which represented the first attempt to dictate an organic discipline for psychiatric assistance in liberal Italy. Under the outline, Nel giardino della follia expressed a series of unresolved tensions in the season of positivism, a series of ambiguities capable of revealing the set of contradictions and dysfunctions that would characterise the discipline of asylum confinement in Italy until the ‘Psychiatric Revolution’ of the 1960s and 1970s.
26/06/2024 – Sabrina Praduroux, La città promessa: uno spazio di libertà, uguaglianza e integrazione [The Promised City: A Space of Freedom, Equality and Integration] In recent decades, many European cities have witnessed a progressive emptying of urban public space, and in particular of its function as a space for the expression of diversity. This process is fuelled by several factors, including policies of privatisation of public space, the emergence of new forms of exclusion from public space, and the criminalisation of uses deemed “inappropriate” for public space. Surprisingly, legal doctrine has paid little attention to the proliferation of regulations of urban space that interfere with the exercise of fundamental rights, especially those of the most vulnerable. This article aims to provide my initial thoughts on the topic based on some recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.
20/06/2024 – Caterina Gagliardi, Luoghi di culto, sostenibilità ambientale e innovazione tecnologica nella pianificazione dello spazio urbano. Evocando il locus amoenus di Ernst Robert Curtis [Places of worship, technological innovation and sustainability in urban space planning] Different religious communities propose themselves as important mediators in processes of ecological transition, both in the development and dissemination of eco-sustainable programmes and solutions that can be seen as the concrete implementation of community life choices, both in the implementation and realisation of social and economic policies based on principles of environmental sustainability. In particular, the contribution intends to examine the dynamics of environmental sustainability that the various religious communities implement in their respective places of worship through the study and execution of solutions and projects that appear to contribute significantly to progress towards effective protection of the ecosystem. This perspective of investigation also makes it possible to highlight the lines of development that more specifically concern the tools, training programmes and funding opportunities for energy efficiency and eco-sustainability activities in the buildings in use and owned by religious organisations.
20/06/2024 – Jessica Mazzuca, Lo svelamento delle città. Il senso di appartenenza e le diversità culturali [The unveiling of cities. The sense of belonging and cultural diversity] Society and culture are two strongly intertwined realities even if they do not coincide. There is no society that does not have cultural production and there is no culture outside of society, of a system of social relations. The analysis of the city is useful because it allows us to also address issues that are partially distant from national consciences, such as those linked to internal and external migrations. Thus, in the richness and multiplicity of conceptions of the city, it is reasonable to find its distinctive features as well as its contradictions, which make the urban scenario also, but perhaps above all, a representation of human reality.
17/06/2024 – Vanessa Oliveira Batista Berner, Artivismo e diritti umani [Artivism and human rights] This article is the result of two academic extension works at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro carried out by the Human Rights Laboratory (LADIH/UFRJ) research group on the impact of art in vulnerable territories at the margins of the city. The theoretical basis is the critical theory of human rights and the critical theory of culture.
17/06/2024 – Rosa Palavera, La colpa, la giustizia e gli occhi delle mura. Appunti di un penalista in cammino per le vie della città [Guilt, justice and the eyes of the walls. Notes of a criminal lawyer walking the streets of the city] The hypothesis of a criminal law of places is assessed under three different profiles and tested on the city case. Taking cues from architectural elements, particularly those allowing or precluding sight, the path proposes a survey of different modes of justice as a gaze and roles of ruled spaces in options of observance, transgression, separation, inclusion, punishment, reconciliation. The possibility is suggested of a shared representation of places of reconciliation, unitively narrated from multiple observation points of urban histories and geographies. Foremost, the need emerges to begin the walk, according to justice, under the towers, along the windows and even beyond contemporary city gates, for an inevitable encounter with the other, whose gaze is only departure and trail sign for recognition.
17/06/2024 – Roberto Bartoli, Riflessioni su carcere e città a partire dal film Ariaferma [Toughts on prison and the city starting from the film Ariaferma] The film Ariaferma serves as a point of reflection on the condition of the prison in the city. Whilst the city is built on relationships, not only does the prison in the city has no relationship with the city, but within the prison, relationships between people are destined to dissolve, too. The prison’s “logic” of separation and segregation can be seen as the negation of the city’s “logic” of relationship. The film Ariaferma moves from this awareness of the prison as the opposite of the city, but its final scene sheds a light on a different reality. Thus, two main legal reflections need to be made. First, punishment does not necessarily mean incarceration: as an extrema ratio, prison and segregation ought to be destined only to violent and serious crime (especially organized crime). Secondly, within the prison itself, more open and humane dynamics should be created, aiming at the model of “prison as a city”.
11/06/2024 – Maurizio Manzin, La piazza e il palazzo. Populismo e antipopulismo in Fuente Ovejuna e ne I promessi sposi [The square and the palace. Populism and anti-populism in Fuente Ovejuna and I promessi sposi] The square and the palace represent two symbolic and opposite places. The former is usually connected to the context of public discussions and confrontations (and sometimes riots) dealing with the political deliberations assumed or to be assumed by the latter, interpreted as the seat of authority and power (and sometimes abuse). The judgement on these two symbolic polarities differs, however, depending on the author. In this case, Manzin analyses in parallel the comedy by Félix Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna (publ. 1619) and Chapter XII of I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni (publ. 1840-42), which famously tells of the assault against the Forno delle Grucce in Milan, 1628. Interestingly, both works deal with the government of Spain in the 15th and 17th centuries respectively, but while de Vega seems very close to some current social and political phenomena related to the so-called “populism”, Manzoni shows to be quite critical towards such kind of behaviours.
10/06/2024 – Fabio Balsamo, Arnau Estanyol e la costruzione della nuova “Cattedrale del Mare”. Rigenerazione urbana e riuso degli edifici di culto nei processi di inclusione sociale [Arnau Estanyol and the construction of the new “Cathedral of the Sea”. Urban regeneration and reuse of places of worship in social inclusion processes] Urban regeneration processes centered on the cultural and social valorization of abandoned buildings of worship can represent a particularly useful action to prevent the marginalization of the suburbs and to promote the social integration of migrants and foreigners within the destination contexts. Conversely, the sharing or loaning of underused Catholic places of worship to more recently established religious groups can significantly contribute to social cohesion. The paper aims to highlight the impact of the reuse of abandoned places of worship in the processes of social inclusion and, specifically, in the affirmation on an effective level of the “right to the city”, which in contemporary multi-religious societies cannot ignore the guarantee of the right of religious communities to have places where they can freely practice their worship.
27/05/2024 – Carla Faralli – M. Paola Mittica, Diritto e letteratura negli Stati Uniti e in Europa. Tradizioni e prospettive [Law and Literature in the United States and Europe. Traditions and Perspectives] This text integrates the speech presented at the 2018 ISLL Conference, which was held at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, entitled “The roots of legal experience”. Its aim is to provide a synthesis of the history and contemporary and international framework of Law and Literature studies with a special focus on American and European studies.
06/05/2024 – Marcus Vinícius Xavier de Oliveira, Nem os aqueus foram tão bárbaros! Os desaparecidos forçados do Araguaia e a omissão do Brasil em revelar o destino de seus corpos [Even the Achaeans were not so barbaric! The enforced disappearances of Araguaia and Brazil’s failure to reveal the fate of their bodies] This essay has as its main object of analysis the fact that Brazil, notwithstanding having ratified the American Convention on Human Rights and the main international treaties related to the prevention and repression of the enforced disappearance of persons, as well as having been condemned by the IACHR to revealing the whereabouts and/or location of the body of the politically disappeared in the Case Gomes Lund and others vs. Brazil it still remains silent and omitted to comply with its international obligations, revealing a purely discursive character of the constitutional principle of the prevalence of Human Rights. This circumstance becomes even more evident from the reading of the poetic work of Luiza Romão, whose poem “homero”, from the book Também guardamos pedras aqui, served as a comparative paradigm for the distinction between civilization and barbarism. The methods adopted were transdisciplinarity and legal criticism, using jurisprudential and bibliographical research as a procedure.
11/03/2024 – Annalisa Verza, Dante’s Inferno and the teaching of law and digital citizenship in secondary schools At the heart of the narrative of Dante’s Inferno is a descending hierarchy of categories, referring to human behavior and attitudes, which is largely an expression of the theological and moral (as well as legal, as far as moral judgments are linked to legal judgments) thinking of his time. Starting from the application of this system to the framework of human conduct that takes place in the ‘other world’ of the web, this essay aims to reflect on the pure narrative power of the inverted climax of Dante’s Inferno, and above all on its potential applications in the teaching of law and of civic and digital citizenship.
21/02/2024 – M. Paola Mittica, Diritto e musica. Ricerca e tendenze [Law and music. Research and trends] This article aims to summarise the research trends affecting Law and Music, a side of Law and Humanities that is encountering increasing interest in the field of legal thought. To this end, it discusses the two approaches of Law in and Law as Music, the relationship between music and political identity, and that between music and political community, concluding on the musical roots of law.