Andrea Alciato, commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus) (January 12, 1492 - 1550), was an Italian jurist and writer. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople JURIST is an online legal news service hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, written by founder Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a staff of more than He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists. The legal humanists were a group of scholars of Roman law, which arose in 16th century France (Bourges as a reaction against the Commentators.
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Biography
Alciati was born in Alzate Brianza, near Milan, and settled in France in the early 16th century. Alzate Brianza is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km north of Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. 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. Civil law, as opposed to Criminal law, refers to that branch of Law dealing with disputes between Individuals and/or Organizations, in which He published many legal works, and some annotations on Tacitus. Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca 56 &ndash ca 117 was a senator and a Historian of the Roman Empire. Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward. Usually known simply as the " Emblemata " the first Emblem book appeared in Augsburg (Germany in 1531 under the title Viri Clarissimi D 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. Emblem books are a particular style of illustrated Book developed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, normally containing about one hundred combinations See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands
Alciati died at Pavia in 1550. Pavia (pronounced Pavìa,) the ancient Ticinum, is a town and Comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south
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,
References
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
External links
- Alciato at Glasgow - Reproductions of 22 editions of Alciato's emblems from 1531 to 1621
- Description, Reproduction and translation Memorial University of Newfoundland
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