Editing Giovanni d'Andrea (section)

==Life==
Giovanni d'Andrea was born at [[Firenzuola|Rifredo]], near [[Florence]], and studied Roman law and [[canon law]] at the [[University of Bologna]], the great law school of the age, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at [[Padua]], and then at [[Pisa]] before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301–02 until his death, save for brief seasons at [[Padua]] 1307–09 and 1319. He wrote the statutes by which the university was governed, in 1317.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/BioBibCanonists/Report_Biobib2.php?record_id=r339|title=BioBib Report}}</ref>

The 1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' related curious stories of him: that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering (yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children); that in an audience he had with [[Pope Boniface VIII]] his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]]s; and that he had a daughter, [[Novella d'Andrea|Novella]], so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students. He was also the father of [[Bettina d'Andrea]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He is reported to have died at Bologna of the [[Black Death]] in 1348, and an epitaph in the church of the [[Dominican Order|Dominican]]s in which he was buried (calling him ''Rabbi Doctorum, Lux, Censor, Normaque Morum'') testifies to the public estimation of his character.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} [[Johannes Calderinus]] (1300–1365) was his student and later his adoptive son. [[Paulus de Liazariis]] and [[Johannes de Sancto Georgio]] were among his students, and he counted the [[Humanism|humanists]] [[Cino da Pistoia]] and [[Petrarch]] among his friends.