Linda Ross Meyer ("Unreasonable Revelations: God Told Me to Kill") cites Guiteau v. This commitment found its expression in the Tractatus de maleficiis, in a series of lectures on trial procedures, and in a large collection of consilia." Historians of the so-called Insanity Defense have recently turned to legal precedents that Gambiglio established in De Maleficiis. While pursuing his academic career Gambiglioni remained committed to the needs of legal practice.
His distinction as a teacher can be gauged not only by the Lectura Institutionum but also by the calibre of his pupils who included Alessandro Tartagni, Bartolomeo Cipolla and Paride dal Pozzo. Gambiglioni's awareness of the demands of an academic readership were honed by his teaching at the University of Bologna from 1431 to 1444 and at the University of Ferrara from 1445 to 1461. The erudition and pragmatism which characterize Gambiglioni's works were shaped by his study under Paolo da Castro at the University of Florence in the 1410s and by his service as a judge in several Italian cities in the 1420s. 1461), the author of the most famous text on penal matters of the fifteenth century, the Tractatus de maleficiis, and of a widely disseminated commentary on the Institutes, the Lectura Institutionum. None was more distinguished than Angelo Gambiglioni (d. Jonathan Davies explains: "A leading centre of learning during the Middle Ages, the Tuscan city of Arezzo produced a series of lawyers whose reputations reached across the Italian peninsula and beyond the Alps. Thus, his Tractatus was both a 'nuts-and-bolts' procedural manual for lawyers and judges and a compendium of contemporary criminal law scholarship" (Herrmann and Speer). He raises in this context as many questions of law as possible, and summarizes the opinions of the most authoritative commentators on each question. In his Tractatus, Angelus sets out a single hypothetical criminal case from start to finish (from the crime to the judgments of conviction). With the publication of De Maleficiis in 1472, "Angelus Aretinus effectively replaced Gandinus as the principal authority on criminal law in continental Europe. THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITY ON FORENSIC CRIMINAL LAW IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE, AND THE MOST FAMOUS TEXT ON PENAL MATTERS OF THE 15TH CENTURY. Spine with 3" tear in vellum (SEE IMAGES), old shelf-mark on paper label: "D.12." On top edge of textblock in early MS is written "Angelus de Malef." An UNSOPHISTICATED copy, but with some faults and priced accordingly. MS entry on title page "321" (an early shelf-mark?). Four original binder's blanks (two at the front, two at the back portion along the top of the first has been excised (likely an old signature) worming to binder's blanks 1, 2 and 4. Contemporary (no doubt original) limp vellum with a nice old patina, three sewing supports of broad leather strips, vellum extending over the fore-edges of both covers, evidence of two pair of ties laced into covers at fore-edges, four spine linings of Medieval MS waste (see below). Light persistant staining to textblock at beginning and end (SEE IMAGES). aa1 (Part 2) with marginal worm-holes (but no other text leaf in the book is affected!). aa (Part 2) slightly browned on account of the paper stock. clxxxvii and clxxxviii are torn in half, with loss of one entire column (SEE IMAGES). clxxxiii-clxxxvi) have been inexplicably *mutilated* with significant losses of text, and fols.
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