<i>La</i> puella rapta. <i>Paradigmi retorici e apprendimento del diritto nelle</i> Istituzioni <i>di Elio Marciano</i>

Abstract

In the Institutiones by the jurist Aelius Marcianus the leges of declamations were quoted and used in order to make sure that the readers of the manual could understand easier and thoroughly its juridical contents. The importance of scholastic rhetoric in more evident in the passages concerning criminal law, as about the puella rapta