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  1. Italian scholar and jurist. Born in Padua, he
  2. studied and taught at Paris and in 1324
  3. collaborated with John of Jandun in writing
  4. the Defensor pacis/Defender of the Peace, a
  5. plea for the subordination of the
  6. ecclesiastical to the secular power and for
  7. the right of the people to choose their own
  8. government. He played a part in the
  9. establishment of the Roman republic in 1328
  10. and was made archbishop of Milan.
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