Cino da Pistoia (1270-1336/37) was an Italian jurist and poet.
He was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. Pistoia is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence His full name was Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi or, latinised, Cinus de Sighibuldis. He received his doctorate from the University of Bologna, where he studied under Dinus de Rossonis, and taught law at the universities of Siena, Florence, Perugia, and Naples. The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna UNIBO) is one of the oldest continually operating degree-granting universities in the world Dinus de Rossonis or Mugellanus was an Italian Jurist of the late 13th century. Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Siena. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Perugia is the capital City of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river and the capital of the Province of Perugia Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the In 1334, he was elected Gonfaloniere of Pistoia, but did not take up the office. The Gonfaloniere was a highly prestigious communal post in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, notably in Florence.
Cino's most important legal work was Lectura in codicem (1312–1314), a commentary on the Justinian Code which blended pure Roman law with contemporary statutes and customary and canon law, thereby initiating Italian common law. The Corpus Juris Civilis ("Body of Civil Law" is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in Jurisprudence, issued from 529 He wrote some 200 lyric poems notable for purity of language and harmony of rhythms, most of them dedicated to a woman named Selvaggia. Dante, a friend of his, in De vulgari eloquentia, praised his poetry. Cino was also close to his fellow student Giovanni d'Andrea and was a literary friend of Petrarch. Giovanni d'Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, (c 1270-1275 &ndash 1348 was an Italian expert in Canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the Francesco Petrarca ( July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar
References
- Weimar, Peter (2001). "Cino da Pistoia", in Michael Stolleis (ed. ): Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, 2nd edition (in German), München: Beck, 133. ISBN 3406 45957 9.
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| NAME | da Pistoia, Cino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi, Cino dei Sinibaldi, Cinus de Sighibuldis |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Italian Renaissance jurist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1270 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pistoia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1336/37 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Pistoia |
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