Usually, Law and Literature studies focus on the presence of legal elements in literary invention. In this contribution, we intend to reverse this perspective by taking the literary datum present in the legal work as the object of observation. Before legal positivism technicalised the discipline, jurists did not disdain spicing up their writings with elements taken from theatre, poetry and stories. Eliseo Danza, a famous jurist of viceregal Naples, reflected in his writings the antiquarian and anecdotal taste typical of his era. In De pugna doctorum, before distinguishing the actio de pauperie from crimen homicidii, he dwells on certain legends featuring dragons and basilisks.
Eliseo Danza. L’immaginario creativo di un giurista barocco / Gustavo Adolfo Nobile Mattei. - ELETTRONICO. - 16:(2023), pp. 1-12. (Intervento presentato al convegno Le ispirazioni del giurista tenutosi a Campobasso, Università del Molise nel 30/6/2023-1/7/2023) [10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7189].
Eliseo Danza. L’immaginario creativo di un giurista barocco
Gustavo Adolfo Nobile Mattei
2023
Abstract
Usually, Law and Literature studies focus on the presence of legal elements in literary invention. In this contribution, we intend to reverse this perspective by taking the literary datum present in the legal work as the object of observation. Before legal positivism technicalised the discipline, jurists did not disdain spicing up their writings with elements taken from theatre, poetry and stories. Eliseo Danza, a famous jurist of viceregal Naples, reflected in his writings the antiquarian and anecdotal taste typical of his era. In De pugna doctorum, before distinguishing the actio de pauperie from crimen homicidii, he dwells on certain legends featuring dragons and basilisks.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
