Bartolo da Sassoferrato's Tract on Insignia and Coats of Arms
 
 

 

Osvaldo Cavallar

Susanne Degenring

Julius Kirshner

A Robbins Collection Publication University of California at Berkeley

Robbins Collection Publications  Boalt Hall, School of Law  University of California at Berkeley  Berkeley, CA 94720-2499 tel. (510) 642-3064

Copyright © 1994 by The Regents of the University of California, The Robbins Religious and Civil Law Collection, School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley.

ISBN 1-882239-07-5 (hard)

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Grammar of Signs: Introduction

The Traditional Tale of the Privileges Bartolo received from Charles IV

A Conflicting Voice: Angelo degli Ubaldi

Bartolo on His Own Privileges

Visual Evidence of Bartolo's Coats of Arms

Did Bartolo Know Hebrew?

Nicola Alessandri and the Legacy of Bartolo

Ante Bartolo

De insigniis: Part I

De insigniis: Part II

Conclusion

1. Edition: Bartolo da Sassoferrato, De insigniis et armis

2. Translation: Bartolo da Sassoferrato, On Insignia and Coats of Arms

3. Antonio da Butrio: Ad c. Dilecta, De excessibus prelatorum (X. 5. 31. 14)

4. Pietro degli Ubaldi: De duobus fratribus

5. Lorenzo Valla's Letter to Pier Candido Decembrio