La flessibilità dello schema societario nell'exercitio negotiationum nel diritto romano della tarda repubblica e del principato

This paper moves from the common view on deficiency of the societas model for the purposes of a developed economy in the Roman world of late Republic and early Empire.To check how this idea is actually founded, it is made a new analyse of some legal data coming from the sources of this period, that shows us a more complex and rich situation. The societas model appears very flexible and fit to the exigencies of Roman businessmen, that could find in it the best way to carry out their activities. Such outcomes should be taken into account when modern scholars want to deepen the relations between economic development and legal framework in the above mentioned age of the Roman history.