Guido de Baysio

Biography

• descendant of the noble Bolognese Baisi family.
• studied in Reggio or Moderna.
• Doctorate in Reggio.
• Chaplain of the Bishop of Parma.
• 1296: Archdeacon of the Cathedral in Bologna.
• 1298: Canon at the Cathedral in Bologna.
• 1301: Taught Canon Law (privatim), but with huge success so that he was made ordinary professor. Taught Johannes Andreae.
• 1304: Went to the papal court in Avignon.
• Was made Capellanus and Scriptor litterarum contradictoriarum.
• Death: probably between 5^th June and 10^th August 1313.

Activities as Canonist

• Apparatus ad Decretum. Rosarium
• Appartus s.Glossae s.Commentarius ad Sextum
• Tractatus de haeresibus ad Clementem V.
• Ordines et provisines pro bono
• Quaestiones

Editions and Sources

• Archidi. super sexto Decre, Myolin, Lugduni 1534.
• Appartus Libri Sexti, Jacobus de Sancto Nazario/Bernardinus de Castelliono, Mailand 1490.
• Rosario super Decretum, Johann Siber, Lyon 1497.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see Alcuin.
• see: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• see entry in Regesta Imperii.
• 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, p.186-190.