FELIPE FARIA CAMARGO

Our aim is to investigate how Dante Alighieri, a philosopher and poet deeply familiar with the legal, philosophical, theological, and political debates of his time, conceived Law. On the one hand, this involves examining Dante's definitions of Law, which appear in two moments within his body of work: in the fourth treatise of Convivio (1304-1308) and in the second book of the treatise Monarchia (1313). In both cases, but particularly in the latter, Dante takes a position against other contenders who were also striving to find an adequate formula to define Law. In this same topic, the relationship between Law and Justice within Dante's philosophy will be investigated, as well as in the thought of the jurists and philosophers of the period. On the other hand, our attention will turn to Dante's vision regarding jurisdictional disputes (in the sense of iurisdictio) between particular legal orders (cities and kingdoms) and universal orders (Empire and Church) in the early 14th century, with the aim of better understanding the Florentine author's use of both Aristotelian-Thomistic and Ciceronian concepts, as well as Roman legal formulas contained in the Digest.