Franciscus Accursius () (1225–1293) was an Italian lawyer, the son of the celebrated jurist and

glossator The scholars of the 11th- and 12th-century legal schools in Italy, France and Germany are identified as glossators in a specific sense. They studied Roman law based on the '' Digesta'', the ''Codex'' of Justinian, the ''Authenticum'' (an abridged ...

Accursius Accursius (Italian: ''Accursio'' or ''Accorso di Bagnolo''; c. 11821263) was an Italian jurist. He is notable for his organization of the glosses, the medieval comments on Justinian's codification of Roman law, the ''Corpus Juris Civilis''. He ...

. The two are often confused. Born in

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, Franciscus was more distinguished for his tact than for his wisdom.

Edward I of England Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 ...

, returning from

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, brought him with him to

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. The king invited him to

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, and he lived in the former Beaumont Palace, (in today's Beaumont Street), in Oxford. In 1275 or 1276 he read lectures on law in the university. He acted as King's Secretary in the late 1270s until returning to Bologna in 1282, practicing law there until his death.

Dante Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

(a contemporary) places Franciscus Accursius in Hell among the sodomites ('' Inferno'' XV, 110). The tomb of his father and himself in Bologna bears the inscription: "Sepulchrum Accursii, glossatoris legum, et Francisci, ejus filii."

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Works of Franciscus Accursius at ParalipomenaIuris
1225 births 1293 deaths Jurists from Bologna Burials at San Francesco (Bologna) 13th-century Italian jurists Characters in the Divine Comedy {{Italy-law-bio-stub