"This song is from 1961. It's the first one I wrote ( alone ) and it saved my skin; if I hadn't written it, probably, instead of becoming a decent singer-songwriter, I would have become a terrible criminal lawyer". Fabrizio De Andrè remembered it by quoting "La ballata del Miché". It will be one of the songs from Faber that will be discussed on Friday 24 January at 3 pm in the Aula Mossa of the Department of Law of the University of Sassari.
The lesson is open to everyone, not just students, and concludes the Criminal Law 2024-25 course. Introduced and moderated by Gian Paolo Demuro, full professor of Criminal Law at the University of Turritano. Two reports are scheduled: "Criminal justice according to De Andrè" by Giuseppe Losappio, full professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bari, and "The ballad of Miché or Justice for the guilty" by Tommaso Gazzolo, associate professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Sassari.
Of course, in the case of Miché in the ballad, the 20-year sentence was fair "because one day he killed the person who wanted to steal his Marì" but it will be interesting to examine other songs, where De Andrè shows his vision that invited judges (but also the bourgeoisie and all of us) to reject abstract neutrality, detached from values and personal events, he invited us to look beyond guilt, as sung in "Città vecchia: "Ma se capirai, se li cercarai fino in fondo, se non sono gigli sono per sempre figli, ragioni di questa mondo".
