La giustizia riparativa nella Divina Commedia: pene, redenzione e beatitudini come sistema morale e giuridico
Restorative Justice in the Divine Comedy: Punishment, Redemption, and Beatitudes as a Moral and Legal System

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in light of the paradigm of Restorative Justice, as opposed to the retributive model. Starting from a theoretical overview of the concept of restorative justice, the author highlights how Dante’s work, through the three canticles, represents a narrative, ethical, and theological model based not on punishment for its own sake, but on the acknowledgment of wrongdoing, accountability, and the possibility of personal transformation. Inferno reveals the consequences of sin as a pedagogical revelation; Purgatorio embodies the core of the restorative process, made up of accepted suffering, relationships, and hope; Paradiso concludes the journey with harmony restored in beatitude. Dante presents himself as a poet-judge and “restorer,” offering the reader a path of awareness, conversion, and reconciliation that anticipates and enriches contemporary thought on justice as care and reintegration.

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