La sanzione a carico del debitore insolvente nel diritto etrusco

Abstract

The sanction against the insolvent debtor in Etruscan law – In Etruscan society, according to a historiographical trend that begins with Aristotle, there was a law that punished the insolvent debtor with public redicule exposure. This punishment, apparently not incisive, to be understood needs to be correlated with the Etruscan legislation on perjury, preserved by Maurus Servius Honoratus, and with many other Roman, Greek and the laws of other ancient peoples. I will highlight the Dionysian aspect of the norm and the link with the poena cullei of archaic Roman law. So, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct the Etruscan legislation in debt matters, to the limited extent possible due to the gaps in the sources.