Andrea, Giovanni d
Andrea, Giovanni d’
Canonist, born near Florence, Italy c.1275; died Bologna, Italy, 1348. He was educated at the University of Bologna, taught at Padua and Pisa, and became professor of canon law at Bologna. Works: Glossary of the Six Books of decretals; Glossary of the Clementine books; Treatise, or Commentary on the decretal letters of Gregory IX; Mercuriales, or commentary on the six rules; Book of the praises of Saint Jerome; Addenda to the Speculum of Durandus.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Andrea, Giovanni d’
Canonist, b. at Mugello, near Florence, about 1275; d. 1348. He was educated by his father and at the University of Bologna where he afterwards became professor of canon law, after having taught at Padua and Pisa. His period of teaching extended over forty-five years. Trithemius, Baldus, Forster, and Bellarmin pay him the highest tributes and on his death during the plague of 1348 he is said to have been interred in the church of San Domenico at Bologna. His career is summed up in the epitaph: Rabbi Doctorum, Lux, Censor, normaque morum. His works are “Glossarium in VI decretalium librum” (Venice and Lyons, 1472); “Glossarium in Clementinas; Novella, sive Commentarius in decretales epistolas Gregorii IX” (Venice, 1581); “Mercuriales, sive commentarius in regulas sexti; Liber de laudibus S. Hieronymi; Additamenta ad speculum Durandi” (1347).
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Andrea, Giovanni d
a famous Italian canonist of the 14th century, was born at Mugello, near Florence, and went to Bologna and studied. under Guy de Baif. In the year 1330 he was professor at Padua, but was soon recalled to Bologna, where be acquired the.highest reputation. He died of the plague at Bologna in the year 1348. Among his best works were his Gloss upon the Sixth Book of the Decretils (Rome, 1476, and five editions afterwards at Pavia, Basle, and Venice) and Glosses upon the Clementines (Strasburg, 1471). He enlarged the Speculum of Durant in 1347.