Johannes Lapus Castilioneus

Biography

 

• member of the Castiglionchio family.
• studied in Bologna, first Philosophy, then Jurisprudence at Johannes Calderinus, Lapus Abbas and Johannes de Lignano.
• 1353: Doctorate
• 1367: Professor of Canon Law
• until 1378: Professor in Florence
• Legate to Avignon, Viterbo, Siena, Lucca, Genua and to Gregory XI (1377).
• escapes to the Monastery S.Croce after rumour that he wants to put the city under papal authority.
• banned, expropriated and sent into exile to Barcelona.
• 1379: Professor in Padua.
• Death: 27^th June 1381.

 

Activities as Canonist

 

• Allegationes iuris
• Tractatus hospitalitatis
• Tractatus de canonical portione et de questu
• Repetitiones

 

 

Introductory Secondary Literature

 

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern.
• 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.270-272