Il carattere paradigmatico della classificazione dei ‘foedera’: dalla partizione di Livio alla sistematica di Grozio, in L. LABRUNA (dir.), Tradizione romanistica e Costituzione, II, Collana ‘Cinquanta anni della Corte costituzionale della Repubblica italiana’, Napoli, 2006, 1561-1585

The scholarly debate has often criticized the traditional distinction between foedera aequa and foedera iniqua, because of the absence of this terminology in the Roman sources, being the second category a creation of their interpretation by Grotius. However, the study of the Roman international relationships clarifies that a simply terminological analysis of the different types of foedera doesn’t make justice of the complexity of the phenomenon, and that a true picture can be obtained only taking into account the political and military power of Rome and its effects in the standardization of international relationships.[...]