, an eminent civilian of the fourteenth century, was born at Bologna
, an eminent civilian of the fourteenth century, was born at Bologna in Italy, and descended from the illustrious family of
the Farneses. Besides his uncommon knowledge in the
civil law, he was a philosopher and politician and an eloquent speaker. These qualifications raised his reputation,
and gave him a great authority among his countrymen.
He was likewise in high esteem with the princes of Italy,
and applied to by many cities and universities. He studied chiefly under Baldus, whose intimate friendship he
gained, and who instructed him in the most abstruse parts
of the civil law. He read public lectures upon the law at
first in Padua, and afterwards at Bologna, in conjunction
with Bartholomew Salicetus, with the greatest applause of
his auditors. He flourished about 1380, and the following
years; for in May, 1382, Salicetus, who was his contemporary, began his commentaries in IX Libros Codic. at
Bologna. Our author died there about the year 1410, and
was buried in the church of St. Benedict; though some
writers pretend, that he lived till 1497, which they infer
from his epitaph, which was only repaired in that year.
But the manuscript of his lecture upon the Clementines
and Rescripts, which is preserved in the library at Augsburg, appears to have been written in 1397; and another
manuscript of his lecture upon the second book of the
Decretals, which is likewise in that library, shews that it
was finished at Venice in 1392. He wrote, 1. “Commentaria in sex Libros Decretalium;
” with the Scholia of
Codecha and John de Monteferrato, at Bononia, 1581, fol.
2. “Lectura super Clementinas,
” with the additions of
Cathar. Panel and others, Lyons, 1549 and 1553, fol.
3. “Seleetae Quaestiones omnium praestantissimorum Jurisconsultorum in tres tomos digestae,
” Francfort, Consilia sive Responsa Juris,
” with the additions of
Jerom Z'anchius, Venice, Repetitiones in C. Canonum Statuta, de Constit.
”
Venice,