Note 1 — JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON (continued 4)

Fam., iv., 15. Giovanni Andrea(✝1348), whose lectures Petrarch had attended when at the University of Bologna, was renowned as an expert in the canon law; he was called "the Archdoctor of the Decretum," and held his chair in the University for no less than forty-five years. His extant writings do not exhibit the ignorance which Petrarch here exposes. He was perhaps, as Fracassetti suggests, un poco più cauto e considerato in his books than in his lectures to his students and his letters to his friends. Cf. Let. delle Cose Fam., i., 568 sqq.