La Legge di Re Salomone: Ragione e Diritto nei Discorsi di Benedetto XVI. Edited by Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini

Abstract

During an already long and intellectually prolific life, Joseph Ratzinger (as a German university academic, as Cardinal heading the most important dicastery of the Roman Curia in matters of faith and morals, and as Pope Benedict XVI in the years 2005–2013) has had many opportunities to consider reason and law. This volume, entitled ‘The Law of King Solomon: Reason and Law in the Addresses of Benedict XVI’, presents five of his most significant addresses during the years 2006–2011, together with 10 essays by distinguished professors discussing aspects of Benedict XVI’s thought. There is a preface by the President of Italy, and an introductory overview by the two editors Marta Cartabia, Professor of Constitutional Law and a judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, and Andrea Simoncini, Professor of Constitutional Law. The whole volume is in Italian, although not all the contributors are. Clearly, such an accomplished work merits being translated into other languages. Readers might want to study this volume in conjunction with Massimo del Pozzo, Il Magistero di Benedetto XVI ai Giuristi (2013), a related but different kind of publication.