Abstract

The scholarly paths of Giorgio Berti and Paolo Grossi cross time and again. The interviewer draws on some of these encounters as cues for Grossi to reflect on some problematic key issues in Berti's vast and complex work. In the appendix to their conversation the interviewer, including in light of Grossi's replies, tries to briefly make evident that the points of contact between the thinking of Berti and that of Grossi are not just mainly intellectual but first and foremost spiritual and anthropological, so that even differing views not devoid of scholarly significance, as those emerging from some of Grossi's remarks, appear unable to scale down the profound ideal consonances, the 'radical' choices of the same values used to underpin legal discourse.