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Report No. r067

Antonius Corsetus Siculus

c.1450–1503

 

Alternative Names

Corsetti; Antonio (LC); Antonius Corsectus; Antonio Corsetto; Antonius Corsichus; Barbatinus

 

Biography/Description

Antonius was born in Noto (Sicily) c. 1450. He attended the school in his native city and became a monk at an early age. Later, he studied under Andreas Barbatius at Bologna, where he obtained his doctorate in utroque iure in 1479. Before his doctorate he was already holding lectures, and in 1479 he became professor of canon law in Bologna and held this position until 1487. Then he went to Padua to teach canon law until 1500. A.’s most famous student was Diplovatatius. At the request of Pope Alexander VI, he became a judge of the Roman Rota, in 1500, and remained in Rome until his death in 1503, although he was named bishop of Malta by the King Ferdinand the Catholic.

 

Entry by: KP rev BP 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Repetitiones.

 
No. 10

De minimis.

 
No. 11

De potestate ac excellentia regia.

 
No. 12

De privilegio pacis.

 
No. 13

De verbis geminatis.

 
No. 14

Dubium de emphitetota absente.

 
No. 15

Quaestio de heredis institutione.

 
No. 16

Singularia et notabilia. The first version of the text, dedicated to Andreas Barbatius.

 
No. 17

Repertorium in opera Nicolai de Tudeschis (Panormitani).

 
No. 18

Casuum Bernardi Parmensis in corpus decretalium revisio.

 
No. 1a

Repetitio in tit. ‘De officio iudicis delegati’. (X. 1.29).

 
No. 1b

Repetitio in tit. ‘De iureiurando’. (X. 2.24).

 
No. 1c

Repetitio in cap. ‘Grandi’, tit. ‘De supplenda negligentia praelatorum,. (VI. 1.8.2).

 
No. 2

Consilia.

 
No. 3

Consilium super Monte pietatis.

 
No. 4

Tractatus ad status pauperum fratrum Jesuatorum confirmationem.

 
No. 5

De auctoritate glossae.

 
No. 6

De bravio.

 
No. 7

De fallentiis ad regulam ‘Spoliatus ante omnia’. (C.3 q.1 c.3).

 
No. 8

De iuramento et eius privilegio.

 
No. 9

De materia Trebellianicae.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1a

Repetitio in tit. ‘De officio iudicis delegati’.

 
Manuscript

Córdoba, Bibl. Cap. [No signature]

 

Text(s) – Early Printed Editions

No. 10

De minimis.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1499 (GW 7781) (IGI 3225).

 
 

Venezia, after 1500 (Hain 5769) (GW 7782) (IGI 3226).

 
 

Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 1.329v-333r.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 18.269r-273r.

 
No. 11

De potestate ac excellentia regia.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1499 (GW 7781) (IGI 3225).

 
 

Venezia, after 1500 (Hain 5769) (GW 7782) (IGI 3226).

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Lyon, 1549, 12.88v-104v.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 16.224r-227r.

 
No. 12

De privilegio pacis.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1499 (GW 7781) (IGI 3225).

 
 

Venezia, after 1500 (Hain 5769) (GW 7782) (IGI 3226).

 
 

Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 13.123r-125v.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 12.224r-227r.

 
No. 13

De verbis geminatis.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1499 (GW 7781) (IGI 3225).

 
 

Venezia, after 1500 (Hain 5769) (GW 7782) (IGI 3226).

 
 

Tractatus (Lyon 1549). Lyon, 1549, 1.327r-329v.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 18.266v-269r.

 
No. 14

Dubium de emphitetota absente.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, after 1486 (GW 7783) (IGI 3227).

 
No. 15

Quaestio de heredis institutione.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, after 1486 (GW 7783) (IGI 3227).

 
No. 16

Singularia et notabilia.

 
Early Printed Editions

First recension.

 
 

Second recension.

 
 

Bologna, 1477 (GW 7788) (IGI 3231).

 
 

Venezia, 1490.

 
 

Milano, 1492.

 
 

Venezia, 1499.

 
 

Pavia, 1500.

 
No. 17

Repertorium in opera Nicolai de Tudeschis (Panormitani).

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, after 1486 (GW 7783) (IGI 3227).

 
 

Venezia, 1499 (GW 7784) (IGI 3228).

 
No. 18

Casuum Bernardi Parmensis in corpus decretalium revisio.

 
Early Printed Editions

Bologna, 1487 (GW 4099).

 
No. 1b

Repetitio in tit. ‘De iureiurando’.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1490 (Hain 5766).

 
 

Milano, 1492 (Hain 5767).

 
No. 1c

Repetitio in cap. ‘Grandi’, tit. ‘De supplenda negligentia praelatorum,.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1493-94.

 
No. 2

Consilia.

 
Early Printed Editions

Consiliorum ad causas criminales. Venezia, 1579, 2.n.25.

 
No. 3

Consilium super Monte pietatis.

 
Early Printed Editions

Padova, 1493.

 
No. 4

Tractatus ad status pauperum fratrum Jesuatorum confirmationem.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1495 (Hain 5770).

 
No. 5

De auctoritate glossae.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1486.

 
 

Venezia, 1499.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 18.186vb-187ra.

 
No. 6

De bravio.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1493-94.

 
 

Lyon, 1543.

 
 

Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 12.217v-218v.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 3.2.325v-26v.

 
No. 7

De fallentiis ad regulam ‘Spoliatus ante omnia’.

 
Early Printed Editions

Venezia, 1499.

 
 

Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 12.407r-408r.

 
 

Regulae iuris. Lyon, 1566, 547-50.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 3.2.324r-25r.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris: Tractatus fallentiarum ad regulam, spoliatus ante omnia restituendus. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 3.2.325va.

 
No. 8

De iuramento et eius privilegio.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 4.359r-364v.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris: De iuramento et eius privilegiis. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 4.359ra.

 
No. 9

De materia Trebellianicae.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon: F. Ziletti, 1459, 7.185v-187v.

 
 

Venezia, 1499 (GW 7781) (IGI 3225).

 
 

Venezia, after 1500 (GW 7782) (IGI 3226).

 
 

Tractatus. Venezia, 1570, 456-70.

 
 

Tractatus universi iuris: Tractatus trebellianicae. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 8.1.437rb.

 

Literature

A. Belloni, Professori giuristi 134–37.

A. Mazzacane, ‘Corsetto (Corsetti), Antonio’, in DBI (1983) 29.540–42 (online).

H. Hoberg, ‘Der Informativprozess über die Qualifikation des Rotarichters Antonio Corsetti 1500)’, Mélanges Eugène Tisserant (Studi e Testi 234; Città del Vaticano 1964) 4.389–406.

F. Berra, ‘Corsetti Antonio’, in NDI (1959) 4.910–11.

L. Genuardi, ‘Canonisti siciliani del secolo XV’, Studi in onore di F. Scaduto (Firenze 1936) 1.419–32.

L. Sighinolfi, ‘La condotta del canonista Antonio Corsetti da Bologna a Padova 1487)’, Studi e memorie per la storia dell’Università di Bologna (1922) 141–51.

J. von Schulte, QL 2.348–49.