Petrus de Ancharano

Petrus de Ancharano , also known under the names Pietro d´Ancarano, Petrus Ancharanus, Petrus Ancora Iuris, Petrus de Ancarana, Pierre d'Ancarano, Pietro d'Ancharano, Pietro de Farneto, (* around 1330 in Ancarano, Tuscany; † 13 May 1416 in Bologna) was an Italian jurist.

Biography and legal career

In 1357/58 Peter studied civil law under Baldus de Ubaldis in Perugia, where he subsequently took up his first teaching position. He is also said to have been a student of Bartholomaes da Saliceto. Peter was a doctor of civil and decetary law and later professor of decretal law.

In the years 1387-1390 he took a teaching position in Siena. In 1392 he gave lectures on canon law in Padua and in 1402 in Ferrara. He is also credited with founding the Collegium Ancharanum in 1414.

At that time Peter enjoyed great fame in Europe, which he earned primarily through his extensive ecclesiastical and secular expert work. He repeatedly held public offices in Bologna and Venice and took part in the Councils of Constance and Pisa, both times as an envoy from the University of Bologna . He wrote several treatises in advance of the last Council of Pisa , which took place in 1409 . He also announced together with Raphael Fulgesius on February 15, 1415 the readiness of Pope John XXIII. to abdicate.

Petrus de Ancharano is one of the great jurists of the Middle Ages.

Works

Consilia , 1549 edition

Lectura super Clementinis, Venice 1483
Disputatio super imprestitis montis novi, Venice, approx. 1499/1500
Repetitio capituli 'Canonum statuta De constitutionibus', Rome 1475, Bologna 1493, Venice 1500
Repetitio capituli 'Postulati de foro competente', Bologna 1474, Toulouse 1484/90

He was also the author of numerous Consilia, Repetitiones, Responsa and the Commentaria in Decretales. Including:

Consilia, Rome 1474, Pavia 1496.
- Consilia ( la ). Jacques Giunta, héritiers, Lyon 1549.
Super I Librum Decretalium, Lyon 1518, Lyon 1535, Bologna 1581.
Super II Librum Decretalium, Lyon 1519, Lyon 1535, Bologna 1581.
Super Sexto Librum Decretalium, Venice 1501

literature

Denley: Commune and Studio, pp. 50f.
Lange / Kriechbaum: Roman Law in the Middle Ages, Vol. I, Munich 2007, p. 385
Lange / Kriechbaum: Römisches Recht im Mittelalter, Vol. II, Munich 2007, p. 53, p. 75, p. 78, p. 88, p. 97, p. 213, p. 597/98, p. 758, P. 979, p. 803, p. 813, p. 819.
Höhl: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 278–282
Kühn: Law and History Review Vol. 15, 1997, pp. 243-273
Schulte: History of Sources and Literature, Vol. II, pp. 278–282.
Souchon: The election of the Pope in the time of the great schism, Vol. II, 241-256.

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personal data
SURNAME	Ancharano, Petrus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1350
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ancarano, Tuscany
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1416
Place of death	Bologna