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Report No. r361 |
Johannes de Lignano |
1320–1383 |
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| Alternative Names |
Giovanni da Legnano (LC); Joannes de Lignano; Giovanni Legnani |
Biography/Description |
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Born c.1320, Johannes studied canon law at Bologna under Paulus de Liazariis. He received a doctorate in canon law in 1351 and became the ordinary lecturer on the Gregorian Decretals, the extraordinary on the Sext and the Clementines, the same year. Since 1352, he appears as doctor utriusque iuris. J. was also engaged in civic business and politics in Bologna, which was rewarded with the Bolognese citizenship in 1378. He died in 1383. |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Concordantia canonum. |
| No. 10 | De decimis. |
| No. 11 | De arbore consanguinitatis et affinitatis. |
| No. 12 | De emptione et uenditione. |
| No. 13 | De testibus. |
| No. 14 | Summa de confessione. |
| No. 15 | De alimentis. |
| No. 16 | Tractatus minoritarum. |
| No. 17 | Consilia. |
| No. 18 | Somnium. |
| No. 2 | Commentaria in Clementinas. |
| No. 3 | Commentaria in decretales. |
| No. 4 | De horis canonicis. |
| No. 5 | De censura ecclesiastica. |
| No. 6 | De beneficiorum pluralitate. |
| No. 7 | De interdicto ecclesiastico. |
| No. 8 | De appellationibus beneficialibus. |
| No. 9 | De statutis. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1 |
Concordantia canonum. |
| Manuscript | Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- u. Universitätsbibl. Luneb. 52, fol. 79–212 |
München, BSB Clm 16186, fol. 1–44 |
| No. 10 |
De decimis. |
| Manuscript | Trier, Stadtbibl. 720, fol. 214v–220 |
| No. 11 |
De arbore consanguinitatis et affinitatis. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Ross. 1061.1, fol. 42–46v |
| No. 12 |
De emptione et uenditione. |
| Manuscript | Arras, BM 896 |
Basel, Universitätsbibl. C.III.32 |
Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 897, fol. 205–208v, 210–212v |
Trier, Stadtbibl. 969, fol. 46–47 |
| No. 13 |
De testibus. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 10726, fol. 133–140v |
Città del Vaticano, BAV Ross. 1061.2, fol. 57v–61 (Fragmentary) |
Wien, ÖNB 5091, fol. 1–6v |
| No. 14 |
Summa de confessione. |
| Manuscript | Padova, Bibl. Univ. 2107, fol. 50–83v |
| No. 15 |
De alimentis. |
| Manuscript | Toledo, Bibl. Catedral 32–29 |
| No. 17 |
Consilia. |
| Manuscript |
| No. 18 |
Somnium. |
| Manuscript | Bernkastel-Kues, Bibl. St. Nikolaus Hospitals 256, fol. 1–89v |
Bernkastel-Kues, Bibl. St. Nikolaus Hospitals 257, fol. 49–64v |
Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 2639, fol. 247r–273v |
Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 11496, fol. 4–112 |
Madrid, BN 449, fol. 113r–171v |
Madrid, BN 735, fol. 1–77v |
Napoli, BN III.A.9, fol. 52–71 |
Valencia, Bibl. Catedral 45, fol. 200r–248r |
| No. 2 |
Commentaria in Clementinas. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Chigi. E.VIII.241, 1ra–155vb |
Milano, Bibl. Trivulz. Nuovi Acq. 10, Coll. A 36 |
| No. 3 |
Commentaria in decretales. |
| Manuscript |
| No. 4 |
De horis canonicis. |
| Manuscript | (For MS copies, cf. Traditio 23 (1967) 419–20, 432–33) |
| No. 5 |
De censura ecclesiastica. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 2639, fol. 275r–292v (Other manuscripts seem to depend on this text.) |
| No. 7 |
De interdicto ecclesiastico. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat 2639, fol. 292v–300v (Other manuscripts seem to depend on this text.) |
| No. 8 |
De appellationibus beneficialibus. |
| Manuscript | Bernkastel-Kues, Bibl. St. Nikolaus Hospitals 264, fol. 158–161 |
Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 1055, fol. 7–8v, 13–17 |
Wien, Schottenstift Bibl. 346, fol. 51–56v |
| No. 9 |
De statutis. |
| Manuscript | London, BL Royal 10.B,IX fol. 237r–245v |
Text(s) – Early Printed Editions |
| No. 4 |
De horis canonicis. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Roma, 1475. |
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Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 15.411-412v. |
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Tractatus universi iuris. Venice: F. Ziletti, 1584, 15.558-559v. |
| No. 5 |
De censura ecclesiastica. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Milano, 1502-25. |
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Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 16.227-48. |
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Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 14.307v-25, 335-38. |
| No. 6 |
De beneficiorum pluralitate. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Louvain, 1475. |
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Paris, 1477. |
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Paris, 1486. |
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Louvain, 1493. |
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Paris, 1512. |
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Bologna, 1515. |
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Tractatus de pluribus doctoribus. Lyon, 1519. |
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Lyon, 1522. |
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Tractatus ex variis iuris interpretibus. Lyon, 1549, 15.127v-29v. |
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Tractatus universi iuris. Venezia: F. Ziletti, 1584, 15.110v-12. |
| No. 7 |
De interdicto ecclesiastico. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Printed together with De censura ecclesiastica. |
Text(s) – Modern Editions |
| No. 16 |
Tractatus minoritarum. |
| Modern Editions |
Ed. F. Margiotta Broglio in SG, 14 (1967) 396–436 (from MS Città del Vaticano, Vat. Chigi E.viii.241). |
| No. 18 |
Somnium. |
| Modern Editions |
Somnium, ed. G. Voltolina (Legnano 2004). (My thanks to Dr. Voltolina for providing me with this information. The edition also contains articles by Giorgio D’Ilario and Maria Consiglia De Matteis..) |
| No. 2 |
Commentaria in Clementinas. |
| Modern Editions |
Quellen zur Geschichte des römisches-kanonisches Prozesses im Mittelalter, ed. L. Wahrmund (Innsbruck 1928) 4.6. (Edits Johannes’s comment on the constitution Saepe (Clem. 5.11.2)..) |
Literature |
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S. Hughes, ‘Soldiers and gentlemen: the rise of the duel in Renaissance Italy’, Journal of Medieval Military History, 5 (2007) 99–157. |
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G. Voltolina, ‘Il Somnium di Giovanni da Legnano’, Politica e “Studium”: Nuove prospettive e ricerche (Bologna 2005) 139–155. |
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M. Fratadochi, ‘Giovanni da Legnano’, in DBI (2001) 56 (online>online). |
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K.–H. Ziegler, ‘Biblische Grundlagen des europäischen Völkerrechts’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 117 (2000) 1–32. |
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P. Landau, ‘Die Bedeutung der Kanonistik für die Karriere einer aufsteigenden Bürgerschicht’, Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 24 (1998) 41–61. |
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M. Bertram, ‘Clementinenkommentare des 14. Jahrhunderts’, QF, 77 (1997) 144–175. |
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G.R. Evans, ‘Notoriety: a mediaeval change of attitude’, Ecclesiastical Law Journal: The Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, 20.4 (1997) 629–638. |
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H. Walther, ‘Canonica sapiencia und civilis sciencia: Die Nutzung des aristotelischen Wissenschaftsbegriffs durch den Kanonisten Johannes von Legnano (1320-1383) im Kampf der Disziplinen’, Scientia und ars im Hoch– und Spätmittelalter, I. Craemer–Ruegenberg and A. Speer, ed. (Miscellania Medievalia: Veröffentlichungen des Thomas–Instituts der Universität zu Köln, 22; Berlin 1994) 2.863–876. |
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M. Consiglia de Matteis, ‘Giovanni da Legnano e lo scisma’, Conciliarismo, Stati Nazionali, inizi dell’Umanesimo. Atti del XXV Convegno storico internazionale (Todi, 9-12 ottobre 1988) (Spoleto 1990) 29–46. |
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D. Quaglioni, ‘Giovanni de Legnano (d.1383) e il “Somnium uiridarii”,’, Civilis sapientia (Rimini 1989) 145–67. |
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M. Consiglia de Matteis, ‘Profilo di Giovanni da Legnano’, L’Università a Bologna: Personaggi, momenti e luoghi dalle origini al xvi secolo, O. Capitani, ed. (Bologna 1987) 157–71. |
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E. Gianazza and G. D’Ilario, Vita opere di Giovanni da Legnano (Legnano 1983). |
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G. Donovan and M. Keen, ‘The “Somnium” of John of Legnano’, Traditio, 37 (1981) 325–45. |
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J. Kirshner, ‘Conscience and public finance: a Questio disputata of John of Legnano on the public debt of Genoa’, Philosophy and Humanism. Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, E. Mahoney, ed. (Leiden 1976) 434–453. |
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J. Schork and J. McCall, ‘A Lament on the Death of John of Legnano’, Studies in the Renaissance (1972) 180–195. |
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D. Maffei, ‘La biblioteca di Gimignano Inghirami e la “Lectura Clementinarum” di Simone da Borsano’, Proceedings Strasbourg (MIC C–4; Città del Vaticano 1971) 224 n.19. |
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R. Witt, ‘The rebirth of the concept of republican liberty in Italy’, Renaissance: Studies in Honour of Hans Baron, A. Molho and J. Tedeschi, ed. (Nuova Serie, 49; Firenze 1971) 173–199. |
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F. Margiotta Broglio, ‘Ideali pauperistici e strutture temporali nella canonistica del secolo xiv. Notazioni ed appunti per una edizione del “Liber Minoritarum” di Giovanni da Legnano’, SG, 14 (1967) 369–436. |
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J. McCall, ‘The Writings of John of Legnano with a List of Manuscripts’, Traditio, 23 (1967) 415–37. |
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G. Rossi, ‘Contributi alla biograifa del canonista Giovanni d’Andrea’, Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile (1957) 1451–1502. |
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S. Stelling-Michaud, ‘Jean de Legnano’, in DDC (1957) 6.112–13. |
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H. Kantorowicz, ‘Die Repetitio super Clementinas Saepe des Johannes da Legnano’, ZRG Rom. Abt., 49 (1929) 105–14. |
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G. Coopland, ‘An unpublished work of John of Legnano: the “Somnium” of 1372’, Nuovi studi medievali, 2 (1925) 65–88. |
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G. Ermini, ‘I trattati della guerra e della pace di Giovanni da Legnano’, Studi e Memorie per la storia dell’Università di Bologna (1932) 5–41, 25–49. |
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F. Bosdari, ‘Giovanni da Legnano, canonista e uomo politico del 1300’, Atti e Memorie della Regia Deputazione di storia patria per le provincie di Romagna, 19 (1901) 1–137. |
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L. Rossi, Degli scritti inediti giuridico–politico di Giovanni da Legnano (Bologna 1898). |
