Goffredus de Trano 

Biography

• born in Trani (Apulia).
• studied in Bologna under Azo and taught there.
• Professor at Naples.
• under Gregory IX: Subdiaconus et Capellanus and Auditor Contradictarum.
• Innocent IV. made him Cardi. Diaconus S.Hadriani at the Council of Lyon in 1245.

Activities as Canonist

• Subdiaconus et Capellanus and Auditor Contradictarum
• Glossae in decretales Gregorrii IX; reworked them between 10^th November 1242 and 25^th June 1243 as Summa super rubricis dectretalium, also called: Summa titulorum decretalium or Summa super titulis decretalium.
• Quaestiones

Editions and Sources

• GOTTOFREDO DA TRANI: Summa super titulis decretalium. Novissime cum repertorio et numeris principalium et emergentium questionum impressa, Second reprint of the edition of Lyion 1516, Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1992.
• GODEFRIDUS DE TRANO: Summa inti. Decretialium, omnibus utilis & necessaria a J.Bapt. Ziletto…erroribus…emendate, Venetia 1564.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• BERTRAM, Martin: Der Dekretalenapparat des Goffredus Tranensis, in: Ibid. (ed.): Kanonisten und ihre Texte (1234 bis Mitte 14. Jh.). 18 Aufsätze und 14 Exkurse, Brill, Leiden 2013, pp. 157-163.
• BERTRAM, Martin: Goffredo da Trani, in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 57/2001.
• see entry at: 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, p.88-91.