De repetundis : il caso di Publio Rutilio Rufo

Abstract

After general premises on the genesis and on the peculiarities of the quaestio of repetundis, first permanent Court established in Rome to repress some criminal cases very similar to those provided by art 317 criminal code, the research deals also with the trial which took place in 92 B.C. against Publius Rutilius Rufus. He was a politician, philosopher, historian and jurisconsult who has gone down in historian because of this court case and the unjust sentence that followed.