Johannes de Lignano

Biography

• we know nothing about his birth and youth.
• studied around 1352 under Paulus de Liazariis in Bologna.
• 1358: Professor of Civil Law and advocatus.
• 1364: Professor of Canon Law.
• went to Avignon (together with Johannes Andreae).
• Govenor (Vicarius Generalis in Temporalibus) of Bologna.
• 15. January 1378: Bologna grants him citizenship out of gratitude.
• taught Franciscus de Zabarellis and Johannes de Imola.
• Died on the 16th January 1383 from the plague.

Activities as Canonist

• Commentarius in Decretales Gregorii IX.
• Lectura super Clementinis
• Concodantiae canonum
• De pluralitate beneficiorum
• De censura ecclesiastica
• De eccleisastico interdicto
• De bello, de repressaliis, de duello
• Tractatus pro defensione electionis Urbanis de fletu ecclesiae
• De horis canonicis
• Tractatus de appellationiuns beneficialibus
• Tractatus de emtione et venditione ad certum tempus
• Consilia et Repetitiones
• De arboe consanguinitatis

Editions and Sources

• McCALL, John P.: The writings of John of Legnano with a list of Manuscripts, Traditio, Vol.23 (1967), pp.415-437.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern.
• 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.257-261.