e. His execution excited a feeling of horror all over Italy.

Countess Martinengo gives a charming sketch of his life in her _Italian
Characters_ (2nd ed., London, 1901); see also Zironi, _Vita del Padre Ugo
Bassi_ (Bologna, 1879); F. Venosta, "Ugo Bassi, Martire di Bologna," in the
_Pantheon dei Martiri Italiani_ (Milan, 1863).

(L. V.*)

BASSIANUS, JOANNES, Italian jurist of the 12th century. Little is known of
his origin, but he is said by Corolus de Tocco to have been a native of
Cremona. He was a professor in the law school of Bologna, the pupil of
Bulgarus (_q.v._), and the master of Azo (_q.v._). The most important of
his writings which have been preserved in his _Summary on the Authentica_,
which Savigny regarded as one of the most precious works of the school of
the Gloss-writers. Joannes, as he is generally termed, was remarkable for
his talent in inventing ingenious forms for explaining his ideas with
greater precision, and perhaps his most celebrated work is his "Law-Tree,"
which he entitled _Arbor Arborum_, and which has been the subject of
numerous commentaries. The work presents a tree, upon the branches of which
the various kinds of actions are arranged after the manner of fruit. The
civil actions, or _actiones stricti juris_, being forty-eight in number,
are arranged on one side, whilst the equitable or _praetorian_ actions, in
number one hundred and twenty-one, are arranged on the other side. A
further scientific division of actions was made by him under twelve heads,
and by an ingenious system of notation the student was enabled to class at
once each of the civil or praetorian actions, as the case might be, under
its proper head in the scientific division. By the side of the tree a few
glosses were added by Joannes to explain and justify his classification.
_His Lectures on the Pandects_ and the _Code_, which were collected by his
pupil Nicolaus Furiosus, have unfortunately perished.

[v.03 p.0495] BASSOMPIERRE, FRANCOIS DE (1579-1646), French courtier, son
of Christophe de Bassompierre (1547-1596), was born at the castle of
Harrouel in Lorraine. He was descended from an old family which had for
generations served the dukes of Burgundy and Lorraine, and after being
educated with his brothers in Bavaria and Italy, was introduced to the
court of Henry IV. in 1598. He became a great favourite of the king and
shared to the full in the dissipations of court life. In 1600 he took part
in the brief campaig