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Andrea Alciato, commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus) (January 12, 1492 - 1550), was an Italian jurist
Jurist

A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth of Nations countries it has only historical and specialist usage....
 and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists
Legal humanists

The legal humanists were a group of scholars of Roman law, which arose in 16th century France as a reaction against the Postglossator. They had a general disdain for the Middle Ages and felt nothing good could come from then....
.

ati was born in Alzate Brianza
Alzate Brianza

Alzate Brianza is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italy region Lombardy, located about 35 km north of Milan and about 10 km southeast of Como....
, near Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
, and settled in France in the early 16th century.






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Andrea Alciato, commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus) (January 12, 1492 - 1550), was an Italian jurist
Jurist

A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth of Nations countries it has only historical and specialist usage....
 and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists
Legal humanists

The legal humanists were a group of scholars of Roman law, which arose in 16th century France as a reaction against the Postglossator. They had a general disdain for the Middle Ages and felt nothing good could come from then....
.

Biography

Alciati was born in Alzate Brianza
Alzate Brianza

Alzate Brianza is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italy region Lombardy, located about 35 km north of Milan and about 10 km southeast of Como....
, near Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
, and settled in France in the early 16th century. He displayed great literary skill in his exposition of the laws, and was one of the first to interpret the civil law
Civil law (common law)

Civil law, as opposed to criminal law, refers to that branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals and/or organizations, in which damages may be awarded to the victim....
 by the history, languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute original research for the servile interpretations of the glossators. He published many legal works, and some annotations on Tacitus
Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
. Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata
Emblemata

Usually known simply as the "'Emblemata'", the first emblem book appeared in Augsburg in 1531 under the title Viri Clarissimi D. Andreae Alciati Iurisconsultiss....
, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward. This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book
Emblem book

Emblem books are a particular style of illustrated book developed in Europe during the 16th and 17th century in literature, normally containing about one hundred combinations of pictures and text....
, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe
Europe

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 and Great Britain
Great Britain

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Alciati died at Pavia
Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po River....
 in 1550.

Works

  • Annotationes in tres libros Codicis (1515)
  • Emblematum libellus (1522)
  • Opera omnia (Basel 1546-49)
  • Rerum Patriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV (Milan, 1625) a history of Milan
    Milan

    Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
    ,


External links

  • - Reproductions of 22 editions of Alciato's emblems from 1531 to 1621
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland