Odoardo Gualandi

[2] At the University of Bologna he graduated summa cum laude in civil and canon law.

The synod in 1582 resulted in his first publication, Constitutiones, et decreta condita ab illustri...Adoardo Gualando...Caesenae.

During his retirement he wrote his only known philosophical treatise, De civili facultate Libri XVI.

[6] The treatise shows Gualandi as an eclectic Aristotelian who attracted attention not as an original thinker but for the way he organized the material in his explanation of ethics and politics.

Gualandi had a reputation for clear explanation of moral philosophy in general, and that of Aristotle in particular.