Abstract
In the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Emilio Betti, the Institute that bears his name wanted to remember the jurist by promoting a study meeting focused on the theme of interpretation which, among the many on which Betti worked, it is certain that on which he put very much attention during the last years of his intellectual life. This volume collects many of the contributions that enriched that meeting together with others who added later. Betti, as is well known, built a peculiar theory of interpretation capable of going beyond the narrow legal framework to take on general value. The highly interdisciplinary cut that we wanted to give to the meeting allowed us to reconstruct the long intellectual path that prepared its construction (and therefore also the lively dialogues with characters such as Croce, Capograssi and Gadamer); to extend the investigation into the many plans touched by hermeneutics of Betti; to investigate the reasons for the limited fortune that his theory has encountered internationally.