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Andrea Alciato, commonly known as Alciati (january 12, 1492 - 1550), was an Italian jurist and writer.
Biography
Alciati was born in Alzano, near Milan, 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 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. Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata, 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, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.
Alciati died at Pavia in 1550.
Alciati's history of Milan, under the title Rerum Patriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV, was published posthumously at Milan in 1625.
External links
- Description, Reproduction and translation Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Italian writers | 1492 births | 1550 deaths | natives of Lombardy
"Andrea Alciato"