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Giovanni d'Andrea was born at Mugello , near Florence and studied Roman law and Canon Law at the University Of Bologna , the great law school of the age, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at Padua , and then at Pisa before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301-02 until his death, save for brief seasons at Padua 1307-09 and 1319. He wrote the statutes by which the University was governed, in 1317 {Link without Title} . The 1911 ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' related curious stories of him, that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering— yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children— that in an audience he had with Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the Cardinal s; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students. He is reported to have died at Bologna of the Black Death in 1348, and an epitaph in the church of the Dominican s in which he was buried, calling him ''Rabbi Doctorum, Lux, Censor, Normaque Morum'' testifies to the public estimation of his character. Johannes Calderinus was his student and later his adoptive son. Paulus de Liazariis and Johannes de Sancto Georgio were among his students, and he counted the Humanist s Cino Da Pistoia and Petrarch among his friends. Giovanni d'Andrea's output was voluminous:
Among lesser works, his additions to the ''Speculum'' of Durandus are simply an adaptation from the ''Consilia'' of Oldradus De Ponte , as is also his ''De Sponsalibus et Matrimonio'', from Johannes Anguisciola . EXTERNAL LINKS
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