Lenoni, adulatori, traditori e cattivi consiglieri. La parola e il crimen stellionatus

Abstract

Through the use of juridical sources, in his

commentary on the Divine Comedy Pietro Alighieri analyzes

the episodes of Dante’ s work from a criminal perspective

and stresses the importance of the penal aspects

of Dante’ s Hell, for example the language crime, i.e the

crimes committed by uttering language: the panderism,

the perjury, the adulatio etc...