Cassiodoro e la prudentia iuris
DI DONATELLA MONTEVERDI
ABSTRACT – The analysis of the Variae, free from prejudices about its author, gives significant information on the role still played by prudentia iuris in the sixth century in the West. The rhetorical formulation that covers the acts contained in the Cassiodorean work appears to be an instrument of connection between the old Roman world and the new Gothic world. Precisely this “cosmetic”, also operated in formulas of lesser importance, such as the model of appointment of the comes rerum privatarum (Cassiod., Var. 6.8.1), allows us to identify the role of great importance still played in the process by the recitatio of jurisprudential writings. This importance is also confirmed by the presence of prudens, alongside Comes Ghotorum, in the comitivae formula Gothorum per singulas civitates (Cassiod., Var. 7.3.1).
KEYWORDS – Cassiodorus, Variae, comes rerum privatarum, Jurists, Rhetorical formulation.