Gallandi, Andrea
GALLANDI, ANDREA
Priest, canonist, and patristic scholar, whose writings contributed to the study of the development of the origins of Canon Law; b. Venice, Dec. 7, 1709; d. Venice, Jan. 2, 1779. He published a collection of treatises of such famous canonists as coustant, De Marcha, ballerini, Berardi, quesnel, and Blasco. This work, entitled De vetustis canonum collectionibus dissertationum sylloge, was published at Venice in 1778. He compiled also the less-known writings of 380 ecclesiastical writers of the first seven centuries in Biblioteca graeco-latina veterum Patrum antiquorumque scriptorum ecclesiasticorum. This collection was published at Venice over a period of years between 1765 and 1781.
Bibliography: r. naz, Dictionnaire de droit canonique, (Paris 1935–) 5:931. h. hurter, Nomenclator literarius theologiae catholicae, 6 v. (Innsbruck 3 1903–13; v. 1 4 1926) 5:111–112. j. c. hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale, 46 v. (Paris 1852–66).
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