Periodically the debate on justice reopens in Italy: scandals break out, controversies flare up, from time to time the role of the judiciary is challenged or exalted. But all the fundamental questions have now been expelled from this scheme. To understand the problem of justice and its administration, it is necessary to go back to the roots, to reflect on the meaning of law in society. Fabrizio Di Marzio is convinced of this, who in the essay ‘Giudici devourers of gifts – Hesiod, at the origins of law’, published by Mondadori, explains how in the thought of the origins law was born in the cradle of justice, but since then he grows in doubt that its making does not correspond to justice. In fact, if the rule of law is established by Zeus, and corresponds to divine justice, its administration belongs to men: to judges, accused in the distant past of failing in the task and of being “devourers of gifts”. Fabrizio Di Marzio reinterprets the work of Hesiod in this key, the first in the West to address the theme of the relationship between justice of nature, that is, a necessity that encompasses the living in its destiny, and human justice, the only possible contrast to this necessity. Every question about justice and judges therefore implies questions about man and what his place is in reality. For Di Marzio, reflecting on justice, law and judges is therefore a retracement of our steps, to learn to mistrust ours. same judgment when it escapes our mouth and we condemn the judges, the accused, the others we meet or hear about, all led to the bar of our personal court.