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decretumCollection of papal decrees. The best known is that collected by Gratian (died 1159) about 1140, comprising some 4,000 items. The decretum was used as an authoritative source of canon law (the rules and regulations of the church). |
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Decretum quod aliqui probi religiosi suae nationis cum eo agant, ut veritatem integre fateatur, quoniam benigne secum agetur. Among their more illustrious members: Guido of Arezzo, who devised the musical notation (do/re/mi) we still use today; Gratian, whose Decretum became the basis for canon law; the fifteenth-century Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Monaco; the enormously gifted humanist monk Ambrogio Traversari; and Nichlas Malerbi who, in the fifteenth century, published the first full Italian translation of the Bible. Decretum Solutions -- virtual decision-making systems |
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