Burgundio of Pisa, sometimes erroneously styled "Burgundius", was a 12th century

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jurist. He was an ambassador for Pisa at

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in 1136. He was a professor in

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, and assisted at the Lateran Council in 1179, dying at a very advanced age in 1193. He was a distinguished

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scholar, and is believed on the authority of Odofredus to have translated into

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, soon after the ''

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'' were brought to

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, the various Greek fragments which occur in them, with the exception of those in the 27th book, the translation of which has been attributed to Modestinus. The Latin translations ascribed to Burgundio were received at Bologna as an integral part of the text of the ''Pandects'', and form part of that known as The

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in distinction from the Florentine text. In addition, he translated from Greek into Latin ''Exposition of the Orthodox Faith'' by John of Damascus and also his ''Fountain of Wisdom'', on request of

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; ''On human nature'' by Nemesius of Emesa; Galen's ''On complexions''; Books 6-8 (on winemaking) of the ''Geoponica''; and homilies on Matthew and John by

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, as well as the first Latin translation of Aristotle's ''Nicomachaen Ethics'' (''Ethica vetus''). F. Bossier, “L’élaboration du vocabulaire philosophique chez Burgundio de Pise,” in ''Aux origins du lexique philosophique européen. L’influence de la latinitas.'' Actes du Colloque international organisé à Rome (Academia Belgica, 23-25 mai, 1996), ed. J. Hamesse, (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1997), pp.81-116.

References

External links

* List of his translations in the Latin Vicipaedia
The ''Chrysostomus Latinus in Iohannem'' Online (CLIO) Project
is an Open Access resource providing Burgundio's translation of Chrysostom's 88 homilies on the Gospel of John (1173), which has never been printed, as well as the later Latin translations of Francesco Griffolini (1462) and Bernard de Montfaucon (1728), along with Montfaucon's critical edition of the original Greek text, which was reprinted in Patrologia Graeca.
The ''Chrysostomus Latinus in Mattheum'' Online (CLIMO) Project
is a new Open Access project that seeks to follow the successful format of the CLIO Project, and is currently preparing an Open Access transcription of Burgundio's translation of Chrysostom's 90 homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (1151), which was also never printed.

Bibliography

*P. Classen, ''Burgundio von Pisa''. Heidelberg, 1974. Italian philosophers Greek–Latin translators 1193 deaths Year of birth unknown 12th-century Italian jurists 12th-century translators 12th-century Latin writers 12th-century Italian philosophers {{Italy-law-bio-stub