Giovanni d'Andrea

Background

Giovanni d'Andrea was born in 1275 at Rifredo, near Florence.

Education

Giovanni studied Roman law and canon law at the University of Bologna, the great law school of the age.

Career

He distinguished himself in Roman law and canon law so much that he was made professor at Padua, and then at Pisa before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301-02 until his death, save for brief seasons at Padua 1307-09 and 1319.

He wrote the statutes by which the University was governed, in 1317.

He died at Bologna of the Black Death in 1348.

Achievements

• Giovanni d'Andrea was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages. His contemporaries referred to him as iuris canonici fons et tuba ("the fount and trumpet of canon law"). Most important among his works were extensive commentaries on all of the official collections of papal decretals, papal judgments in the form of letters to delegated judges that were at the core of canon law.

Works

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  • Hieronymianus liber (Latin Edition)

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  • Liber sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VIII. & Clementinis Papae V Constitutiones & Extravagantes tum viginti Ioannis vicesimi secundi

Connections

He was married and had children. Johannes Calderinus was his student and later his adoptive son.

Daughter:

Novella d'Andrea

She was an Italian legal scholar and professor in law at the university of Bologna.

Daughter:

Bettina d'Andrea

(b. in Bologna – d. 1355)