Poesia e diritto. Il diritto nei poeti e nei giuristi di Roma antica alla luce del pensiero di Federico Maria D'Ippolito

Abstract

The research is aimed to highlight some aspects of the history of roman law from the point of view of the relationship between law and poetry, in particular, the law in the poetry of ancient Rome. With this regard, the intent is to go beyond the traditional and technical sources of ancient roman law and to consider other kind of sources in which find ancient institutions or traces of them. The research wants to emphasize the work of the scholars that studied the relationship between poetry and law of the ancient Rome, in particular professor Federico Maria D'Ippolito who thoroughly analyzed this field and discovered the deep flow from poetry to law and viceversa, and their mutual use. The empirical analysis comes from the D'Ippolito's researches about the poet Ennio and the jurist Sesto Elio, with the purpose to study the representations of law in Ennio's poetry and to see the poetic dimension into Sesto Elio's work, Tripertita, in the period of the beginning of the second century b.C. [edited by Author]