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Lycée Essay (3): When a Truth is that Old, It is on its Way to Becoming a Lie
No full textThe subject of Gramsci’s essay, here in its English version, is taken from a paraphrase of words in Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People: “Truths, in getting old, become errors”. Each generation has had its syntheses, truths following one another, each believed by its supporters but excluding the others. Intellectual ruins and contradictory substrata of human consciousness are the outome, and even science has not escaped this débacle. Contradictory truths have led even to massacres and reprisals, with the destruction of society’s dynamic and progressive aspects. Some truths are long-lasting, such as the Ptolemaic universe or the existence of God, whose mummi-fied corpse can still however make its presence felt. Many contemporary problems can be traced back to old truths which – through official compromise and hypocrisy – still have to be respected. Humanity will construct other, more rational truths, in order to reach some destiny, but we cannot know if this will consist of annulment or deification.The subject of Gramsci’s essay, here in its English version, is taken from a paraphrase of words in Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People: “Truths, in getting old, become errors”. Each generation has had its syntheses, truths following one another, each believed by its supporters but excluding the others. Intellectual ruins and contradictory substrata of human consciousness are the outome, and even science has not escaped this débacle. Contradictory truths have led even to massacres and reprisals, with the destruction of society’s dynamic and progressive aspects. Some truths are long-lasting, such as the Ptolemaic universe or the existence of God, whose mummi-fied corpse can still however make its presence felt. Many contemporary problems can be traced back to old truths which – through official compromise and hypocrisy – still have to be respected. Humanity will construct other, more rational truths, in order to reach some destiny, but we cannot know if this will consist of annulment or deification
Shakespeare and Taking the Name of God in Vain: Oaths and Swearing on the Shakespearean Stage
No full textIn 1606, the Puritan influence on performances took a further step: the “Act to Restrain Abuses of Players” was issued, forbidding profanity on stage. Analysing Shakespearean texts before and after that date, it is apparent that many oaths and expletives had to be cancelled, though not consistently.
This paper deals with Jacobean censorship and its interiorizing as a kind of new taboo for playwrights
Censorship and self-censorship: taboo topics in the representation of Richard II.
No full textAbstract: Rooted in Polynesian origins, the term “taboo” expresses concepts relating to both sacredness and danger which, as Freud and Frazer have shown, also apply to figures of authority. This paper investigates how these taboos are manifest in the representation of Richard II in three plays: The Life and Death of Jack Straw, Shakespeare’s Richard II, and the anonymous Thomas of Woodstock. These texts, while all dealing with the same controversial monarch, offer different approaches to the depiction of royal authority, rebellion, and censorship. This paper examines the ways in which boundaries of political discourse were shaped by both explicit censorship and self-censorship, particularly in relation to the depiction of the king’s failures and the social consequences of his rule. It highlights the role of taboos in early modern political theatre, revealing how the sacred and dangerous nature of kingship was negotiated on stage and how these themes were managed through complex strategies of language, silence, and omission
Qualche breve considerazione su diritto romano e scienze dell\u27antico
Get PDFThe author makes some brief consideration on the relationship between Roman law and other disciplines concerning ancient Rome. The author makes some brief consideration on the relationship between Roman law and other disciplines concerning ancient Rome
Bonae artes e ius. Retrospettiva e prospettiva su due giornate pluridisciplinari in ricordo dell’opera di Ferdinando Bona.
Get PDFThis paper offers some concluding remarks concerning the conference “Bonae artes et ius: IX incontro di studio di storici e giuristi dell’antichità”, held at the University of Pavia on January 26 and 27, 2023. In the spirit of the conference, these remarks first touch upon multidisciplinarity and its benefits in Roman legal history, particularly for the study of Roman law from a historicizing perspective, i.e. in its ancient context. A brief biographical profile of Ferdinando Bona is then presented, and his method of placing texts and close reading at the centre of all interpretation – namely through an analysis of their structure - is emphasized. The soundness of this method is illustrated through the hypothesis put forward by Bona (in 1990) concerning the thematic (not alphabetical) ordering of Aelius Gallus\u27 De verborum quae ad ius civile pertinent significatione. This hypothesis was confirmed by the identification in 2017, by W. Kaiser, in some manuscripts linked to the Lex Romana Visigothorum, of an extract from the work of Aelius Gallus, regarding the degrees of kinship (cognatio), which is arranged thematically. The dating of the work of Aelius Gallus to the end of the republic or the Augustan age, as accepted by Bona, also seems to receive some confirmation from this newly identified extract.This paper offers some concluding remarks concerning the conference “Bonae artes et ius: IX incontro di studio di storici e giuristi dell’antichità”, held at the University of Pavia on January 26 and 27, 2023. In the spirit of the conference, these remarks first touch upon multidisciplinarity and its benefits in Roman legal history, particularly for the study of Roman law from a historicizing perspective, i.e. in its ancient context. A brief biographical profile of Ferdinando Bona is then presented, and his method of placing texts and close reading at the centre of all interpretation – namely through an analysis of their structure - is emphasized. The soundness of this method is illustrated through the hypothesis put forward by Bona (in 1990) concerning the thematic (not alphabetical) ordering of Aelius Gallus\u27 De verborum quae ad ius civile pertinent significatione. This hypothesis was confirmed by the identification in 2017, by W. Kaiser, in some manuscripts linked to the Lex Romana Visigothorum, of an extract from the work of Aelius Gallus, regarding the degrees of kinship (cognatio), which is arranged thematically. The dating of the work of Aelius Gallus to the end of the republic or the Augustan age, as accepted by Bona, also seems to receive some confirmation from this newly identified extract
Da Cicerone a Gaio, da Gaio a Cicerone: L’’arte’ di insegnare il diritto a Roma negli studi di Ferdinando Bona
Get PDFThis article aims to reconstruct a path within Ferdinando Bona\u27s studies. It is a path that links Gaius\u27 Institutiones to the project set out by Cicero in the first book of De oratore, concerning the need to give a systematic form to ius civile. At the very core of this twofold development there is an interest in the ways in which law is taught, particularly in handbooks.Questo articolo si propone di ricostruire un percorso interno agli studi di Ferdinando Bona. Si tratta di un percorso che collega le Institutiones di Gaio al programma esposto da Cicerone nel primo libro del De oratore riguardo alla necessità di dare una forma sistematica al ius civile. Al centro di questo doppio percorso si trova l\u27interesse per le forme di insegnamento del diritto, in particolare per la manualistica
