GANDOLFO of Bologna. - Theologian and canonist of the 12th century, d. c. 1185.
Author of a Glossa on Gratian’s Decretum, known to us only through citations, and of a book of Sentences (Quattuor libri sententiarum, ed. J. V. Walter, Vienna 1924), probably composed between 1160 and 1170 and frequently cited by early scholastics. He is therefore the author of the Sentences of Peter Lombard and undoubtedly depends on them, yet his work is not to be regarded as a mere summary. He is considered a representative of the so-called christological nihilism, which was later condemned by Alexander III.
Unfortunately, of G.’s canonical work (Glossa on the Decretum) nothing survives except what later glossators, and especially the Summa Lipsiensis and Uguccio, have preserved. Some of these glosses were reproduced in the Ordinary Gloss of Johannes Teutonicus. Many citations, however, remain unpublished in manuscripts. The identification of these citations is further complicated by the possible confusion between the sigla (the letter G. also designates Gerard Pucelle, bishop of Coventry, d. 1184).
G. taught at Bologna, but whether he was the master of Uguccio, as Schulte maintains, has not yet been demonstrated. He seems to have been alive at least until 1185, since in that year he is mentioned among the living by one of Uguccio’s continuators, though the date of his death is unknown.