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Report No. r397

Lapus Castelliunculus

d. 1381

 

Alternative Names

Castiglionchio; Lapo da (LC); Lapo da Castiglionchio; Johannes Lapus Castilioneus; Lapus Castelliunculus; Lapus Castilioneus; Lapo da Castiglionchio il vecchio

 

Biography/Description

From Florence, Lapus studied philosophy and law at Bologna under Johannes Calderinus, Lapus Abbas, and Johannes de Lignano. He received doctorate around 1353. Thereafter he was in Florence, first as a private teacher of canon law and then as a professor (1367–78). He also held various positions in the Florentine government until he fell into political disgrace. Banned from his native city, he obtained a professorship in canon law at Padua (1379). He died in Rome two years later.

My thanks to Thomas Frank for information to update this entry.

 

Entry by: KP rev BP 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Allegationes iuris.

 
No. 2

Tractatus hospitalitatis. On X 3.36.3.

 
No. 3

Tractatus de canonica portione et de questu.

 
No. 4

Repetitiones.

 
No. 4a

Repetitio in cap. Iuramentum v. Sane. (X 2.24.36.1).

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Allegationes iuris.

 
Manuscript

Bruxelles/Brussel, Bibl. Royale 11562

 
 

Kaliningrad, Universitätsbibl. 129

 
 

Magdeburg, Stadtbibl. 81

 
 

München, BSB Clm 3632

 
 

München, BSB Clm 7584

 
 

Wien, Schottenstift Bibl. I.F.a.5, fol. 1–156

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 4213

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 4329

 
No. 4a

Repetitio in cap. Iuramentum v. Sane.

 
Manuscript

Tours, BM 601

 

Text(s) – Early Printed Editions

No. 1

Allegationes iuris.

 
Early Printed Editions

Roma, 1474 (Hain 4579).

 
 

Milano, 1491 (Hain 4580).

 
 

Milano, 1498 (Hain 4581).

 
 

Venezia, 1498 (Hain 4582).

 
 

s.l., s.a. (Hain 4578).

 
 

Lyon, 1537.

 
 

Firenze, 1568.

 
 

Lyon, 1571.

 
 

Venezia, 1600.

 
No. 2

Tractatus hospitalitatis.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 14.162.

 
No. 3

Tractatus de canonica portione et de questu.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 15.193.

 

Literature

T. Frank, ‘Spätmittelalterliche Hospitalreformen und Kanonistik’, Reti Medievali – Rivista (2010) (online).

E. Spagnesi, ‘Le allegazioni e i trattati di Lapo da Castiglionchio’, Proceedings Washington, D.C., U.–R. Blumenthal, K. Pennington, and A. Larson, ed. (MIC C–13; Città del Vaticano 2008) 897–931.

F. Sznura, Antica possessione con belli costumi: Due giornate di studi su Lapo da Castiglionchio il Vecchio (Firenze 2005).

M. Palma, ‘Castiglionchio, Lapo da’, in DBI (1979) 22.4 (online).

M. Palma, ‘La mano di Lapo da Castiglionchio il Vecchio nel Laurenziano S. Croce 26 sin. 10’, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 17 (1974) 515–516.

J. von Schulte, QL 2.270–72.