Biography

 

• descendant of the de Nicoletis family from Imola.
• Studied in Bologna under Franciscus de Ramponibus, Johannes de Lignano, further Baldus de Ubaldis, Benedictus a Plumbino, Antonius de Butrio, Petrus de Ancharano and Angelus de Ubaldis.
• 1397: Doctor utrumque juris.
• 1399-1400: Professor.
• 1402: Professor in Ferrara (together with Antonius de Butrio and Petrus de Ancharano).
• 1406: Professor in Padua.
• returned to Bologna.
• went again to Padua
• 1432: Returned to Bologna.
• Death: 13^th March 1436.

Activities as Canonist

 

• Commentary on the Decretals of Gregory IX.
• Commentary to the Liber Sextus
• Commentary to the Clementines
• Consilia
• Tractatus de appellationibus
• Repetitiones

Editions and Sources

 

• Ionannes de Imola super Clementinis: I.de Imola…in Clementinas ipule[n]tissima co[m]mentaria, Lugduni 1525.
• Super Secundo Decretalium…Ioannis de Imola commentaria, seu (si manis) Lectura, in Secundum Decretalium librum, Lugduni 1549,
• Consilia, Venetia 1581.
• Commentaria in librum tertium Decretalium, Venice 1500.
• Lectura super prima parte primi libri Decretalium, Venice 1500.
• Repetitio capitula Cum contingat De iureiurando’ (Lib. Extra 2,24,28), Venice 1496.
• Repetitio capitula Cum contingat De iureirurando’ (Lib. Extra 2,24,28), Bologna, 1493.
• In secundam partem Digesti novi, Milano 1477.
• Lectura super prima parte Infortiati, Venice 1475.

Introductory Secondary Literature

 

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• 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.296-298.