Filippo Decio
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Filippo Decio | |
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_Portretten_van_beroemde_geleerden_(serietitel)_Imagines_L._Doctorum_Virorum_(serietitel),_RP-P-1909-1067.jpg) Engraved portrait of Filippo Decio from Imagines L. Doctorum Virorum by Philip Galle | |
| Born | 1454 |
| Died | 13 October 1535 (aged 80–81) |
| Other names | Philippus Decius |
| Occupation | jurist |
Filippo Decio or Decius (1454 – c. 1535) was an Italian jurist whose services were courted by European universities and rulers. He was an influential representative of the pre-Humanist scholastic ius commune tradition, and one of the leading jurists of his time together with Felino Sandeo, Antonio Cocchi Donati and Bartolomeo Socini.[1]
Born into a Milanese noble family, Decio studied the humaniora and then law in Pavia under his brother Lancelotto and Jason de Mayno. In 1475, he attained a doctorate at Pisa, where he taught civil and canon law until 1502, except for a 1484–87 stint in Siena. After squabbles within the Pisan faculty, he taught canon law in Padua from 1502; his salary was 600 gold ducats.
In 1505 the French king Louis XII, who was in Milan, requested that he move to Pavia; the initial objections of the Republic of Venice were overcome, and he moved there at the end of the year. By 1511 his salary had risen to 2000 florins.[2] Following departure of the French from Milan in April 1512 and the destruction of his home, his library and his manuscripts by the Swiss army, he followed Louis XII's call to Valence and became a member of the Grenoble parlement. In 1516, the Duke of Tuscany[clarification needed] succeeded in convincing Decio to return to Pisa, and in 1528 he moved to Siena.
According to Mariano Sozzini, he died in Siena on 13 October 1535.[2] He is buried in the Camposanto Monumentale of Pisa, beneath a monument he himself commissioned before his death.
