Aldo Schiavone founded the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, where he was professor of Roman law. His books include The End of the Past, The Invention of Law in the West, Spartacus, What Is Progress, and Pontius Pilate.
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Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgot... SEE MORE