, or Ding, a native of Mugello in Tuscany, was a very learned lawyer and
, or Ding, a native of Mugello in Tuscany,
was a very learned lawyer and professor of law at Bologna,
in the thirteenth century, and indeed accounted the first
man of his time for knowledge, eloquence, and style both
of speaking and writing. Pope Boniface VIII. employed
him in compiling the fourth book of the Decretals,
called the Sextus. He died at Bologna in 1303, as it is
said, of chagrin. He had entered into the church, and
been disappointed of rising according to what he thought
his deserts. Of his works, his “Commentarium in regulas
juris Pontificii,
” 8vo, was so valuable that Alciat reckoned
it one of those books which a student ought to get by
heart, a character which it ceased to support when Charles
du Moulin pointed out a great many errors in it. His
other publication is entitled “De glossis contrariis,
” 2
vols. fol.