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See also:ANDREA See also:ALCIATI (1492-1550) , See also:Italian jurist; was See also:born at Alzano, near See also:Milan, on the 12th of See also:January 1492 . He displayed See also:great See also:literary skill in his exposition of the See also:laws, and was one of the first to interpret the See also:civil See also:law by the See also:history, See also:languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute See also:original See also:research for the servile interpretations of the glossators . He published many legal See also:works, and some annotations on See also:Tacitus . His Emblems, a collection of moral sayings in Latin See also:verse, has been greatly admired, and translated into See also:French, Italian and See also:Spanish . See also:Alciati's history of Milan, under the See also:title Rerum Patriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV., was published posthumously at Milan in 1625 . He died at See also:Pavia hi 1550 . |
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