ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348), professor of canon law at Bologna, where he is said to have died of plague. Curious stories are told of him, e.g., that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for 20 years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering; that in an audience he had with Pope Bonif ace VIII. his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.