JOHN BASSIANUS (Bazianus, Baxianus). - Decretalist glossator, from Bologna. He was the first doctor utriusque iuris.

Between 1180 and 1190 he wrote an Apparatus in Decretum, a work carried out in full independence from the other glossators, with sound and exclusively juridical criteria, and which, thanks to the author's solid preparation in both laws, had an unmistakable character of completeness and originality, asserted the importance of the law of the Decretals and exercised a decisive influence. His glosses extend to the Decretals of Alexander III. He died on 22 February 1197 in Bologna, where he was a canon of the Cathedral.

He is not to be confused with the namesake and contemporary Giovanni Bassiani, from Cremona, a civilist glossator and professor at the University of Bologna.

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BIBL.: J. F. Schulte, Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts, I. Stuttgart 1875, pp. 154-56, 222; A. van Hove, Prolegomena, 2nd ed., Malines-Rome 1945, pp. 428, 444, 460.

Cesare Moreschini

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John Bassianus (Bazianus, Baxianus)

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