Odofredus (died 3 December 1265) was an Italian

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. He was born in Ostia and moved to

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, studying

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under

Jacobus Balduinus Jacobus Balduinus (about 1175 – 10 April 1235) was an Italian jurist. He was born in Bologna probably about 1175, and is reputed to have been of a noble family. He was a pupil of Azo, and the master of Odofredus, of the canonist Hostiensis ( ...

and

Franciscus Accursius Franciscus Accursius ( it, Francesco d'Accorso) (1225–1293) was an Italian lawyer, the son of the celebrated jurist and glossator Accursius. The two are often confused. Born in Bologna, Franciscus was more distinguished for his tact than for h ...

. After working as an advocate in Italy and

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, he became a law professor in Bologna in 1228. The commentaries on

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attributed to him are valuable as showing the growth of the study of law in Italy, and for their biographical details of the jurists of the 12th and 13th centuries. Odofredus died at Bologna in 1265. Odofredus is famous for the personal remarks with which he sprinkled his teaching, often introduced by ''Or signori'', "Listen, gentlemen". Perhaps his most famous saying is: "Everybody wants to know, but nobody wants to know the price of knowledge".

Works

Under his name appeared the following works, which had already been printed in the late fifteenth century: * ''Lecturae in Codicem'' (Lyons, 1480) * ''Lecturae in Digestum Vetus'' (Paris, 1504) * ''Summa de libellis formandis'' (Strassburg, 1510) * ''Lecturae in Tres Libros'' (Venice, 1514) * * ''Lecturae in Digestum Novum'' (Lyons, 1552) File:Odofredus Bononiensis – Summa de libellis formandis, 13th-century – BEIC 11569750.jpg, ''Summa de libellis formandis'', 13th-century manuscript. Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Handschriften, M. p. j. f. 7, ff. 13r-18r.

References

External links

Works of Odofredus at ParalipomenaIuris
1265 deaths Burials at San Francesco (Bologna) Year of birth unknown Jurists from Bologna People from Ostia (Rome) 13th-century Italian jurists 13th-century Latin writers {{Italy-law-bio-stub