Giganti, Girolamo:

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TRACTATUS DE PENSIONIBUS ECCLESIASTICIS, HIERONYMI GIGANTIS JURIS CONSULTI CLARISSIMI, CUM ADDITIONIBUS EIUSDEM AUCTORIS NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCEM EDITIS. Later edition, new and enlarged, of this early legal treatise on ecclesiastical pensions by Venetian jurist Girolamo Giganti (d. 1560). "Annual pensions," explains Richard H. Helmholz, "were a long-established feature of ecclesiastical life. They had many legitimate uses," but they were also subject to legal contest and abuse. Helmholz notes that while "no separate title of the Corpus iuris canonici was devoted to the subject," such pensions were "treated by name in titles dealing with ecclesiastical obligations and in time the subject spawned a modest academic literature." Gigantis' Tractatus de Pensionibus, first published in 1542, was one of a handful of such 16th-century legal treatises dedicated to the subject of ecclesiastical pensions. It takes the form of one hundred "quaestiones," each addressing a particular aspect of the subject, and includes forms, or examples, of applications for pension transfers and cancellations. The present edition was published in Venice twenty-eight years after the first and, according to the titlepage, contains additions by the author published here for the first time ("cum additiones eusdem auctoris nunc primum in lucem editis"). Also included at front is the original dedication to Cardinal Benedetto Accolti, dated 1542, as well as a table of contents listing all one hundred quaestiones and

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