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Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/1314–1357), the greatest medieval jurist and one of the most important of all times. He was born in a small village near Sassoferrato, in the Lands of St. Peter, and attended his first studies with the Franciscan friar Pietro da Assisi. At the age of 14, he entered the school of law in Perugia, where he met his master Cino da Pistoia, the great commentator of Justinian’s Code and Dante’s best friend. When Cino moved to Florence, Bartolus went to Bologna, where in 1334 he took his doctorate in utroquebefore a commission which included great masters like Iacopo Bottrigari, Raniero Arsendi, Iacopo Belvisi, and Giovanni Calderini. After a brief period in which Bartolus exercised the office of judge in cities such as Todi and Pisa, he began his courses in civil law precisely in Pisa in 1339 and then moved to Perugia in 1343. In Perugia, Bartolus, who always called himself “civis Perusinus,” taught civil law until 1357, when he died at the age of 43...

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  1. Department of Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Diego Quaglioni

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Quaglioni, D. (2020). Bartolus. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_749-1

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