This Article presents the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, as a classic writing of universal literature that contains anticipations and fundamental innovations of the political categories of modernity: Contractualism, constituent power, constitutional deliberation, rhetoric, and the relation with Fortuna. The argument is developed in three parts: Initially, the legal and European dimension of the Decameron are summarized; then the discussion focuses on legal issues and institutional characters narrated in the novels; finally, the introduction of the work is analyzed, in which both the political-constitutional theme of the new beginning of the community and the collective archetype of the plague are interpreted as metaphors for the state of exception.
"FORCE DISGUISED AS REASON”: LAW, JURISTS, AND CONSTITUENT POWER IN BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON
Vespaziani Alberto
2018-01-01
Abstract
This Article presents the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, as a classic writing of universal literature that contains anticipations and fundamental innovations of the political categories of modernity: Contractualism, constituent power, constitutional deliberation, rhetoric, and the relation with Fortuna. The argument is developed in three parts: Initially, the legal and European dimension of the Decameron are summarized; then the discussion focuses on legal issues and institutional characters narrated in the novels; finally, the introduction of the work is analyzed, in which both the political-constitutional theme of the new beginning of the community and the collective archetype of the plague are interpreted as metaphors for the state of exception.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
