Dominicus de Dominicis

(Venetus, Torcellanus)

 

Biography

 

• born in Venice.
• Dean in Civita
• 18^th February 1448: Bishop in Torcello.
• 1464: Bishop of Brescia.
• was Legate under Paul II.
• 17^th February 1478: Death in Brescia.

 

Activities as Canonist

 

• De reformationibus Romanae curiae
• De Cardinalium electione et legitima creatione
• De potestate papae et cardinalium
• De Concilio et ipsius potestate ac pontifices
• De episcopali dignitate
• An papa ligetur vinculis sui juramenti et decretis

 

Editions and Sources

 

• De reformationibus Romanae Curiae: mit Summa capitulorum, Brescia 1495.
• De Sangvine Christi Tractatvs Reveren. D. D. Dominici De Dominicis Veneti, Acceßit Tractatus eiusdem de Filiatione Ioannis Euangelistae ad B. Virginem pulcherrimus, Venetiis, Fine 1957.
• Liber de Dignitate Episcopali, Roma 1757,
• Moralia sive expositio in Iob: with a preface to Papst Sixtus IV. of Dominicus de Dominicis, Bischof von Brescia, corrected by Bartholomaeus Platina, Reynaldus de Nimwegen, Venice 1480.

 

 

Introductory Secondary Literature

 

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• JEDIN, HUBERT: Studien über Domenico de' Domenichi: (1416 -1478), Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz 1958.
•  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. 305-306.