Huguccio

(Hugo, Hugutio, Uguccio)

Biography

 

• Born around 1140/50 in Pisa.
• Studied in Bologna.
• Probably taught by Gandulphus and John Faventinus.
• Taught in Bologna at the Monastery of St. Felix and Nabor.
• 1190: Bishop of Ferrara.
• Death: 30.04.1210 in Ferrara.

Activities as Canonist

• Teacher of Pope Innocent III.
• Wrote: Liber Derivatiorum (? challenged by Walter Müller).
• ca.1188-1190: finished a Summa in Decretum with the one of John Faventinus, but also the one of Rufinus, Stephen of Tournai, Paucapalea as well as the Gloss of Cardinalis, Albertus, Gandulphus, Bazianus and Simon in mind. Probably the most universal work of Canon Law in the 12^th century.
• Probably Glossator.

Editions and Sources

• HUGUCCIO: Summa decretorum -BSB Clm 10247 (14^th century).

Introductory Secondary Literature

• GILLMAN, Franz: Gesammelte Schriften zur klassischen Kanonistik. Schriften zum Dekret Gratians und zu den Dekretisten, Echter, Würzburg 1988.
• MIRAMON, Charles: Innocent III, Huguccio de Ferrare et Hubert de Pirovano: Droit canonique, théologie et philosophie à Bologne dans les années 1180, in: MÜLLER, Wolfgang/SOMMAR, Mary (ed.): Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University of America Press 2006, p.320-346.
• MÜLLER, Wolfgang: Huguccio: the life, works, and thought of a twelfth-century jurist, in: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, Vol. 3, Catholic University of America Press, Washington 1994. (Table of Content)
• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts. Von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, Vol. 1, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875, pp. 156-170.
• WEIGAND, Rudolf: Huguccio, in: KASPER, Walter (ed.): Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Vol. 5, Hermeneutik-Kirchengemeinschaft, Herder, Freiburg 2009, p.314.