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ANDREA ALCIATI (1492-1550)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 522 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREA
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ALCIATI (1492-1550)  ,
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Italian jurist; was
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born at Alzano, near
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Milan, on the 12th of
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January 1492 . He displayed
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great
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literary skill in his exposition of the
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laws, and was one of the first to interpret the
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civil
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law by the
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history,
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languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute
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original
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research for the servile interpretations of the glossators . He published many legal
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works, and some annotations on
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Tacitus . His Emblems, a collection of moral sayings in Latin
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verse, has been greatly admired, and translated into
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French, Italian and
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Spanish .
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Alciati's history of Milan, under the
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title Rerum Patriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV., was published posthumously at Milan in 1625 . He died at
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Pavia hi 1550 .

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