Name Burgundio Pisa Role Author | Died 1193 | |
Burgundio of Pisa, sometimes erroneously styled "Burgundius", was an Italian jurist of the 12th century. He was an ambassador for Pisa at Constantinople in 1136. He was a professor in Paris, and assisted at the Lateran Council in 1179, dying at a very advanced age in 1193.
He was a distinguished Greek scholar, and is believed on the authority of Odofredus to have translated into Latin, soon after the Pandects were brought to Bologna, the various Greek fragments which occur in them, with the exception of those in the 27th book, the translation of which has been attributed to Modestinus. The Latin translations ascribed to Burgundio were received at Bologna as an integral part of the text of the Pandects, and form part of that known as The Vulgate in distinction from the Florentine text.
In addition, he translated from Greek into Latin Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus; On human nature by Nemesius of Emesa; Galen's On complexions; Books 6-8 (on winemaking) of the Geoponica; and homilies on Matthew and John by John Chrysostom.