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ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 969 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348) , Italian canonist, was born at Mugello, near Florence, about 1275. He studied canon law at Bologna, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at Padua, and later at Pisa and Bologna, rapidly acquiring a high reputation for his learning and his moral character. Curious stories are told of him; for instance, that by way of self-mortifiCation he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a
bear
 's skin for a covering; that in an
audience
  he had with
Pope
 
Boniface
  VIII. his extraordinary shortness of stature led the
pope
  to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals; and that he had a daughter, Novella,so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students. He is said to have died at Bologna of the plague in 1348, and an epitaph in the
church
  of the Dominicans in which he was buried, calling him
Rabbi
  Doctorum, Lux, Censor, Normaque Morum, testifies to the public estimation of his character.
Andrea
  wrote a
Gloss
  on the
Sixth
  Book of the Decretals, Glosses on the Clementines and a Commentary on the Rules of Sextus. His additions to the Speculum of
Durando
  are a mere adaptation from the Consilia of Oldradus, as is also the book De Sponsalibus et Matrimonio, from J. Anguisciola.


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