GANDOLFO di BOLOGNA. — Theologian and canonist of the 12th century, d. around 1185.
Author of a Gloss on Gratian’s Decree, known until now only through citations, and of a book of Sentences (Quatuor libri sententiarum, ed. J. V. Walter, Vienna 1924), probably composed between 1160 and 1170 and frequently cited by the early scholastics. This work is later than the Sentences of Pietro Lombardo and undoubtedly depends on it; however, it should not be regarded as a mere summary of that work. G. is considered a representative of the so-called Christological nihilism, which was later condemned by Alessandro III.
Unfortunately, of G.’s canonical work (Gloss on the Decree), only what was preserved by later glossators, and especially by the Summa Lepicensis and Ugucione, remains. Some of these glosses were reproduced in the ordinary gloss of Giovanni Teutonico. But many citations are still unpublished in the manuscripts. What further complicates the identification of these citations is the confusion that remains possible between the sigla (the letter G. also designates Gerardo Pucelle, bishop of Coventry, d. in 1184).
G. taught in Bologna, but that he was Ugucione’s teacher, as Schulte maintains, has not so far been demonstrated. He seems to have lived at least until 1185, because in that year he is mentioned among the living by one of Ugucione’s continuators; but the date of his death is unknown.