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Report No. r040

Angelus de Castro

c. 1410–c. 1485

 

Alternative Names

Angelo da Castro; Angelus Castrensis

 

Biography/Description

There are few certain details regarding the life of Angelus de Castro, the eldest son of the more famous jurist Paulus de Castro. He was born during the the first decades of the fiftennth century, though the exact date is unknown. The earliest record of Angelus is the document describing his degree as doctor utriusque iuris, which he received 7 May, 1436 from the University of Padua. Later that year we find Angelus lecturing on Roman law in Bologna. In 1439 he returned to Padua to lecture on canon law. He remained mostly in Padua for the rest of life, save some excursions to Rome, where he served as a consistorial advocate, and Bologna, where he briefly lectured on Roman law again. In addition to his teaching activity, Angelus wrote consilia. Possible dates for his death vary widely, from 1477 at the earliest to 1492 at the latest.

 

Entry by: KP rev BP 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Lectura in I librum Decretalium.

 
No. 10

Tractatus.

 
No. 2

Recollecta super primo libro Decretalium.

 
No. 3

Lectura in II librum Decretalium.

 
No. 4

Lectura in secundam partem libri II Decretalium.

 
No. 5

Lectura in tit. ‘De appellationibus’. (X. 2.28.1–15).

 
No. 6

Lectura in librum III Decretalium.

 
No. 7

Lectura in IV librum Decretalium.

 
No. 8

Lectura super quibusdam titulis libri secundi Decretalium.

 
No. 9

Consilia.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Lectura in I librum Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

Trier, Stadtbibl. 869/1628

 
No. 10

Tractatus.

 
Manuscript

München, BSB Clm 6674

 
No. 2

Recollecta super primo libro Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

Bologna, Coll. Spagna 107

 
No. 3

Lectura in II librum Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

Bologna, Coll. Spagna 99

 
No. 4

Lectura in secundam partem libri II Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

München, BSB Clm 6580

 
No. 5

Lectura in tit. ‘De appellationibus’.

 
Manuscript

München, BSB Clm 6584

 
No. 6

Lectura in librum III Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

München, BSB Clm 6572

 
 

München, BSB Clm 6586

 
No. 7

Lectura in IV librum Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

München, BSB Clm 6587

 
No. 8

Lectura super quibusdam titulis libri secundi Decretalium.

 
Manuscript

Bologna, Coll. Spagna 108

 
No. 9

Consilia.

 
Manuscript

Bologna, Coll. Spagna 212

 
 

Leiden, Bibl. Rijksuniv. d’Ablaing 33

 
 

München, BSB Clm 6661

 
 

München, BSB Clm 4244

 
 

München, BSB Clm 6573

 
 

Nürnberg, Stadtbibl. Cent. VI.7

 
 

Padova, Bibl. Univ. n. provv. 275

 
 

Padova, Bibl. Univ. 1268

 
 

Perugia, Arch. S. Pietro CM 57

 
 

Pesaro, Bibl. Oliver. 98

 
 

r040Txt9Ravenna, Bibl. Classense 450 (Volumes IV, V, and IX only)

 
 

Ravenna, Bibl. Classense 285

 
 

Venezia, BN lat. V 2

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 5054

 

Text(s) – Early Printed Editions

No. 9

Consilia.

 
Early Printed Editions

Consiliorum matrimonialium. Venezia, 1572, 1. n. 27, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 40.

 

Literature

D. Quaglioni, ‘Gli ebrei nei consilia del Quattrocento veneto’, Consilia im späten Mittelalter: Zum historischen Aussagewert einer Quellengattung, I. Baumgärtner, ed. (Studi: Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Studienzentrums in Venedig, 13; Sigmaringen 1995) 189–204.

A. Belloni, Professori giuristi 119–23.

M. Billanovich Dal Zio, ‘L’attività editoriale di Giovanni Domenico del Negro e i “consilia” di Angelo da Castro’, Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova (1982) 107–12.

G. D’Amelio, ‘Castro, Angelo da’, in DBI (1979) 22.223–25.

M. Rigoni, ‘Una conferma in ruolo a metà del XV secolo: il notaio e il bidello generale dell’Università giurista’, Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova (1973) 163, 165–67.

G. Schizzerotto, Le incisioni quattrocentesche della Classense (Ravenna 1971) 83–85.

P. Boeren, ‘Les “Apostillae” de Michel Carcano de Milan, O. F. M., au “Consilium de usuris” d’Ange de Castro’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 63 (1970) 174–77.

N. Del Ré, ‘Paolo di Castro, dottore della verità’, Studi senesi 3rd ser. (1970) 211–13.