Lucas de Penna (Luca da Penne, Luca da Penna, Luca De Penna) (c. 1325 – c. 1390) was a fourteenth-century

Neapolitan Neapolitan means of or pertaining to Naples, a city in Italy; or to: Geography and history * Province of Naples, a province in the Campania region of southern Italy that includes the city * Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and High ...

jurist and a judge of the Magna Curia at Naples. He is known for his ''Commentaria in tres libros Codicis Justiniani imperatoris'', a commentary on part of the

Code of Justinian The Code of Justinian (, or ) is one part of the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople. Two other units, the Digest and the I ...

. It was printed in 1512. He also wrote a ''Summaria'' on

Valerius Maximus Valerius Maximus () was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: ' ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as ''De factis dictisque memorabilibus'' or ''Facta et dicta memorabilia''). He worke ...

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Walter Ullmann Walter Ullmann (29 November 1910 – 18 January 1983) was an Austrian-Jewish scholar who left Austria in the 1930s and settled in the United Kingdom, where he became a naturalised citizen. He was a recognised authority on medieval political tho ...

(1946), ''The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna: A Study in Fourteenth-Century Legal Scholarship'' *Francesco Calasso (1932), ''Studi sul commento ai tres libri di Luca da Penne : la nascita e i metodi dell'opera'' *Maria M. Wronowska (1925), ''Luca da Penne e l'opera sua''

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Short biography (Italian language)
1320s births 1390s deaths 14th-century Italian jurists People from Penne, Abruzzo {{Italy-law-bio-stub