Francesco Mastroberti – Stefano Vinci – Michele Pepe, Il Liber Belial e il processo romano-canonico in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo. Con l'edizione in volgare italiano (Venezia 1544) trascritta e annotata, Cacucci ed., 2012
Scant bibliography exists in Italy on the Liber
Belial, the work written by Giacomo Palladino, alias Jacopo da Teramo
(1349-1417), bishop in Monopoli, Taranto, Firenze and Spoleto. In his book the author
imagined that the devils decided to bring legal action against the
dispossession by Jesus Christ, when he descended into the Hell to free the
patriarchs’ soul. The Liber Belial presents interesting juridical
content: studying the juridical controversy of the protagonists, the work describes
the intricate and obscure procedural mechanisms, unravelling their secrets into
the vast world of the profane, in a pleasant fictionalized style but also with
absolute technical accuracy: the description of every processual step contains
precise references to legal sources: above all the Liber Extra of
Gregory the IX, but also Liber Sextus, Digesta and Codex
Iustiniani. The legal content is not the only in the Liber Belial.
We have a theological content (all the protagonists acting in the book, in
fact, are figures of the Catholic Tradition) and an important sociological
content: the long section in which the Last Judgement is explained, the
description of what is right or wrong, true or false, make of the Liber Belial
an important and effectual interpretive means of the medieval mentality.
The present work, Il
Liber Belial e il processo romano-canonico in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo,
is divided into three parts: in the first the authors describe the basic
profiles of the author and his work and deepen the legal content of Liber
Belial; in the second part we have the faithful transcription of the only
edition in Italian, printed in Venice in 1544; in the third part we have a
comparison of the normative apparatuses of the most important Liber Belial's
European versions
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