Odofredus (died 3 December 1265) was an Italian
jurist
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. He was born in
Ostia and moved to
Bologna
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, studying
law
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under
Jacobus Balduinus 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
France
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, he became a law professor in Bologna in 1228. The commentaries on
Roman law
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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)
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* ''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
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