Type: Person

Name: Jacobus de Belviso

Dates: 1270 ca. — 1335

Gender: male

Variant names: Bellovisu, Jacobus de; Belvisi, Giacomo

Biographical details: Jacobus was born in Bologna around 1270 and studied there under Franciscus Accursius and Dinus de Mugello. He taught canon law there in 1296–97. Jacobus received doctorates from Naples in December of 1298 and from Bologna in 1305. It was long believed that he also obtained a degree from Aix, but this seems not to have been the case (see Maffei 1979). Similarly, he never wrote the treatise titled Practica, which circulated under his name from its first printed edition in 1515. For a long time, Jacobus remained a wandering scholar, lecturing on both laws at Padova, Siena, Perugia, and Napoli. Finally, he settled in his hometown in 1321. He died in 1335.

References: CERL cnp00395321; VIAF 171686763

Editor: CM

Start of time period: 13th century AD, 3rd quarter

End of time period: 14th century AD, 2nd quarter

Period: late medieval

Profession: jurist; university lecturer

Place: Bologna

Country: Italy