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Johannes de Lignano


Biography

 

  • we know nothing about his birth and youth.
  • studied around 1352 under Paulus de Liazariis in Bologna.
  • 1358: Professor of Civil Law and advocatus.
  • 1364: Professor of Canon Law.
  • went to Avignon (together with Johannes Andreae).
  • Govenor (Vicarius Generalis in Temporalibus) of Bologna.
  • 15. January 1378: Bologna grants him citizenship out of gratitude.
  • taught Franciscus de Zabarellis and Johannes de Imola.
  • Died on the 16th January 1383 from the plague.


 

Activities as Canonist

 

  • Commentarius in Decretales Gregorii IX.
  • Lectura super Clementinis
  • Concodantiae canonum
  • De pluralitate beneficiorum
  • De censura ecclesiastica
  • De eccleisastico interdicto
  • De bello, de repressaliis, de duello
  • Tractatus pro defensione electionis Urbanis de fletu ecclesiae
  • De horis canonicis
  • Tractatus de appellationiuns beneficialibus
  • Tractatus de emtione et venditione ad certum tempus
  • Consilia et Repetitiones
  • De arboe consanguinitatis



Editions and Sources

 


  • McCALL, John P.: The writings of John of Legnano with a list of Manuscripts, Traditio, Vol.23 (1967), pp.415-437.

 

 

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