Bartolus of Sassoferrato (or Saxoferrato)
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The Bartolist school of civil lawyers or ‘commentators' dominated university law teaching from the fourteenth
century. Challenged by the humanists in the sixteenth century, they remained influential in practice. Bartolus
excelled among them in the ability to devise solutions to practical problems and provide clear and workable
doctrines applying the civil law texts to legal and political problems.
Born in Sassoferrato, Bartolus studied civil law under Cinus of Pistoia at Perugia from 1328 but his baccalaureate
in 1333 and doctorate in 1334 were at Bologna. He practised for a period and was a legal assessor at Todi, then
probably at Cagli and finally at Pisa in 1339. In 1339 he became professor at Pisa. In 1342-3 he moved to Perugia,
remaining there until his death in 1357. Baldus was his pupil and, from about 1351, his colleague there.