{"product_id":"the-trial-of-lucifer-arturo-iannelli-9798250442169","title":"The Trial of Lucifer: The first trial of Lucifer, bearer of light, following a millennium of condemnation without the right to be heard","description":"\u003ci\u003eEvery legal system worthy of the name rests upon a simple principle: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eno one may be condemned without first being heard.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucifer has been condemned in the Scriptures, cursed by the Fathers of the Church, frozen in the deepest ice of Dante's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, invoked as a bogeyman in sermons and catechisms for two thousand years.\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet he has never spoken. He has never been permitted to speak within the very system that condemned him.\u003cbr\u003eThis book was born of a question that is not theological but juridical: \u003ci\u003ewhat if we have heard only one version of the story?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE TRIAL OF LUCIFER\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary, philosophical, and dramatic trial - conducted with historical and philological rigour. The material is real: the sacred texts, the depositions of the prophets, the works of the Romantic poets, the theological treatises, the testimonies of the mystics. The form is that of the courtroom drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWitnesses for the prosecution: \u003c\/b\u003eIsaiah, Ezekiel, John the Apostle, Saint Peter. And the great interpreters of the tradition: Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWitnesses for the defence: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Mark Twain. And the Italian poets Mario Rapisardi and Ulisse Barbieri, who in the nineteenth century gave Lucifer a powerful and long-forgotten voice.\u003cbr\u003eThe Judge, finding himself persuaded by neither thesis, appoints a Court-Appointed Expert to reconstruct the historical and philological genesis of the figure of Lucifer: which texts contributed, which were excluded from the biblical canon and why, and how the translation choices shaped the image we know today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is not a book against faith.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is a book in favour of the responsibility of judgement.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Jury is you.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are not asked to acquit.\u003cbr\u003eYou are asked to listen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arturo Iannelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798250442169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Arturo Iannelli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001212838143,"sku":"9798250442169","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-trial-of-lucifer-arturo-iannelli-9798250442169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}