odofredus' grave at San Francesco church, Bologna, Italy. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy

Odofredus (died 3 December 1265) was an Italian jurist. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest JURIST is an online legal news service hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, written by founder Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a staff of more than

He was born at Bologna and studied law under Jacobus Balduinus and Franciscus Accursius. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society Jacobus Balduinus (d 1225 Italian Jurist of the 13th century was by birth a Bolognese, and is reputed to have been of a noble family Franciscus Accursius ( Italian: Francesco d'Accorso; 1225 &ndash 1293 was an Italian lawyer the son of the celebrated jurist and Glossator Accursius After having practised as an advocate both in Italy and France, he became a law professor at Bologna in 1228. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The commentaries on Roman law 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. Roman law is the legal system of Ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting 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".

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)
• Lecturae in Digestum Novum (Lyons, 1552)

References

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