ПЕТ ПЕРСОНАЖА ПЛЮС ЕДИН. ДАНТЕ И ПРОЦЕСЪТ НА ИИСУС
FIVE PERSONS PLUS ONE. DANTE AND THE TRIAL OF JESUS

Summary/Abstract: The essay is focused to the way in which Dante, in his Comedy, deals with the fellows who are involved in the trial against Jesus. Each of them is represented separately, but the several descriptions, considered all together, give an exact idea of the theological and legal vision of the poet on the famous trial. Besides the accused Jesus, the High Priests Caifa and Hanna (who represented the justice of the Synedrium), and the traitor Judas, who gave Jesus in the hands of the Romans, we find also the emperor Titus, who, with the distruction of Jerusalem, realized the "revenge of the revenge of the ancient sinn", giving a final conclusion to the event. But another figure must be added to the first five: Pontius Pilatus, the governor of the province of Iudaea, who represented the power of Rome, and is never named in the poem. This omission has to be considered intentional, and is functional to an exact ideological goal.

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