ANDREA S. 23 r tircns was profeflbr at Padua about the vcar 1 330; but hi ! i . .n 11 u n. "' v.is recalled to Bologha, where he acquired tire grtate re- , putaticn. We are told wonderful things concerning the au- fterity of his lite, that he macerated his inuly with p-ayer an I "v '9- i!t:ng, and l.iy upon the bare "round t'ur twenty years r ih;T. Vovt K-d oi. ly with a bea'-fk'm: th ; s is tufted by ver good authors ; but if the (lory wi ich Poggius tells of him,' in his Jefts, be tiue, he muft afterwards have relaxed much of this contincncy : *' Joannem Andrtam," fays he, " doc- " torem Bonontenfem, cujus fjvna admodum vulgatacft, fub-
- ' agitanum ancillarn domefticani uxor deprt-liendit : re in-
- ' fiieta ttupt'Cafla mulicr in virum verfa, Ubi nunc, ait,
" Joannes, eft fapientia vcftra ? illc nil atnplius locutus, fa
- ' vulva iftius, relpondit, luco admodum lapientiie accom-
" modafo[AJ." Andreas had a beautiful daughter, named Novella, whom he loved extremely ; and he is faid to have inftru&ed her fo well in ?11 parts of learning, that when he was engaged in any affair, which hundred him from reading lectures to his fcholars, he fent his daughter in his room: when, left her beauty ihould prevent the attention of the hearers, (lie had a little ..;. 36. curtain drawn before her. To perpetuate the memory of this dauahter, heintitled his commentary upon the Decretals of Gregory IX. "the Novellne." He married her to John Calderinus, a learned canonift. The firft work of Andreas was his " Glofs upon the fixth Book of the Decretals," which he wrote when he was very young. He wrote allb 4I GlolVes " upon the Clementines," and a ** Commentary in regulas 41 Sexti," which he intitled 4t Mercunalcs," becaule he either cnwa^ed in it on Wednefdays, diebus I'lercurii, or becaufe he inferted his Wednel'day's difputes in it. He enlarged the
- Speculum of Durant," in the year 1347. This is all
which Mr. Bayle mentions, though he wrote many more things. Andreas died of the plague at Bologn.a in 13^8, after AJ A learned canonift of fame (John An.-.rtas was the dof>cr's na:nt) Once on a tim? in b:d was loiJ, Solacirg it v. ith msda.ii's maid ; "When chance, that Cower of all ftiife, BiougKt in, curft luck, the doctor's wife. And is it you ? the lady cries j E!-j's me ! 1 fcarcecan trull my ces; Inconfiant wretch, of Ihan.elefs brow ! Where is your bonded wifdom now ? ' Tis here, the c*uc"tor, L-lulhing. cne% 'Tis here, dear w ite, my wildom li< s ; A pioper place (the pUce he frowi) Fur wearied wifuom to repotV.
