_Quaestiones_, _Distinctiones_, _Libri disputationum_, _Summae_ of the _Codex_ or the _Institutions_, and other legal writings, are extant in goodly bulk and number from the Bologna school. The names of the men are almost legion, and many were of great repute in their day both as jurists and as men of affairs. We may mention Azo and Accursius, of a little later time. Azo’s name appears in public documents from the year 1190 to 1220--and he may have survived the latter date by some years. His works were of such compass and excellence as to supersede those of his predecessors. His glosses still survive, and his _Lectura_ on the _Codex_, his _Summae_ of the _Codex_ and the _Institutes_, and his _Quaestiones_, and _Brocarda_, the last a sort of work stating general legal propositions and those contradicting them. Azo’s glosses were so complete as to constitute a continuous exposition of the entire legislation of Justinian. His _Summae_ of the _Codex_ and _Institutes_ drove those of Placentinus out of use, which we note with a smile.[396] None of the glossators is better known than Accursius. He comes before us as a Florentine, and apparently a peasant’s son. He died an old man rich and famous, about the year 1260. Azo was his teacher. In 1252 he was Podesta of Bologna, which indicates the respect in which men held him. Villani, the Florentine historian, describes him as of martial form, grave, thoughtful, even melancholy in aspect, as if always meditating; a man of brilliant talents and extraordinary memory, sober and chaste in life, but delighting in noble vesture. His hearers drank in the laws of living from his mien and manners no less than from the dissertations of his mouth.[397] Late in life he retired to his villa, and there in quiet worked on his great _Glossa_ till he died.