Bonifatius de Vitalinis de Mantua

Biography

• studied Law in Padua.
• 1340: Returned to Mantua and specialized in criminal court practice.
• left his profession in order to pursue a spiritual life.
• 1350: appeared in Padua as Rector of the church S.Martini de Tribesili, vicar of the Bishop and teacher.
• 1352: Professor in Avignon.
• Consistorial Advocate.
• Fiscal of the Curia Romana.
• Auditor.
• Appears 1388 in Avignon.

Activities as Canonist

• Super Maleficiis
• Commentarii in Constitutionibus Clementis Papae V.
• Solemnis ac perutilis tractatus de modo procedendi contra apostatas.
• Consilia
• Tractatus qui respirant speciale mandatum.

Editions and Sources

• Super Maleficiia, Filippo Penzi, 1518.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• 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, p.255-256.
• See Wikipedia.