Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists |
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Report No. r080 |
Augustinus Berous |
1474–1554 |
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Alternative Names |
Beró; Agostino (LC); Agostino Bero; Augustinus Beroisius; Augustinus Beroius; Agostino Berojo |
Biography/Description |
Augustinus was born in 1474 at Bologna. He may have studied Roman law under Marianus Socinus the old and Carolus Ruinus; he certainly studied canon and civil law respectively under Florianus Dolfi and Bonifacius Fantuzzi. A. obtained his doctorate in utroque iure in 1503. In 1504 he became professor in Bologna and taught Roman law during the three following years; then he began teching canon law and carried out this activity until his death in 1554. He was also named monarcha legum. He found support in Popes Julius II and Julius III and was often employed as a consultant by princes. Gianangelo de Medici (Pope Pius IV), Hugo Boncampagni (Gregorius XIII) and the Bishop Paulus Baralio of Arezzo were among Augustinus’ most famous students. |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
No. 1 | Commentaria super decretales. |
No. 2 | Quaestiones familiares pragmaticis percommodae. |
No. 3 | Consilia. |
Text(s) – Early Printed Editions |
No. 1 |
Commentaria super decretales. |
Early Printed Editions |
Lyon, 1550-1552. |
Venezia, 1578-1580. |
No. 2 |
Quaestiones familiares pragmaticis percommodae. |
Early Printed Editions |
Bologna, 1550. |
Lyon, 1551. |
Bologna, 1568. |
Venezia, 1574. |
Augsburg, 1629. |
No. 3 |
Consilia. |
Early Printed Editions |
Bologna, 1567. |
Venezia, 1577. |
Augsburg, 1601-1602. |
Literature |
R. Bonfil, ‘Il problema dei conversos nel XV secolo e le sue ripercussioni per la ristrutturazione dell’atteggiamento ebraico nei confronti del cristianesimo all’alba dell’epoca moderna’, Una Manna buona per Mantova: Man Tov le-Man Tovah. Studi in onore di Vittore Colorni per il suo 92° compleanno, M. Perani, ed. (Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, Miscellanea 14; Firenze 2004) 241–259. |
A. Lambert, ‘Bero (Augustin)’, in DDC (1949) 2.789. |
J. von Schulte, |