Andreas de Barbatia

 

Biography

 

• 1400: born in Messina (Sicily).
• 1425: moved to Bologna, where he studied medicine, then law at Johannes of Imola, Baptista de Sancto Petro.
• Doctor utrumque iuris
• 1438: taught Canon Law.
• taught Canon Law in Ferrara (called by margrave Nikolaus II).
• 1442: citizen of Bologna, later Eques Auratus.
• 1460: Marriage with Margaretha, daughter of Romeo Pepoli.
• Amongst his students were: Rodorigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI., Bartholomew Socinus, Hippolytus de Marsiliis.
• 1478: Stopped teaching with Antonius Corsetus Siculus as his successor.
• Death: 21^st July 1479

 

Activities as Canonist

 

• Consilia
• Lecturae s. repetitiones in titulus diversos
• Tractatus
• Commentaria super I., II. et III. Librum decretalium
• Additiones ad Nicolai de Tudeschis Commentaria super decretalibus

Editions and Sources

 

• Tractatus solemnis de praesentia Cardinalium, Mediolanum 1508.
• Repetitio rubricae “De fide instrumentorum” (Decr. II,22), Milano 1493.
• Lectura super titulo “De constitutionibus” (Decr. I,2) una cum repetitione capitula “Cum Martinus Ferrariensis”, (Decr. I, 2,9), Ugo Rugerius, 1491.
• Co[n]sumatissimi ac emine[n]tissimi Andree barbacii Siculi utriusq[ue] iuris monarche Co[n]siliu[m] diuo ordini fartu[m] minorum editum miranda…., Strasbourg 1490/95.
• Lectura in Clementinarum compillationem, Paris 1517.

 

Introductory Secondary Literature

 

see Deutsche Biographie.

 SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, pp. 306-311.