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ALESSANDRO See also: ALEXANDER AB ALEXANDRO)
(1461-1523),
See also: Italian jurist, was See also: born at Naples about the See also: year 1461
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He studied See also: law at Naples and See also: Rome, and afterwards practised for a See also: time as advocate in both cities
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He is said to have been royal proto-See also: notary at Naples in 1490
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Dissatisfied, according to his own account, with the corrupt administration of See also: justice, he at length quitted the See also: bar and devoted himself entirely to See also: literary pursuits, especially to the study of See also: philology and antiquities
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A sinecure See also: appointment, which he owed to the favour of the See also: pope, enabled him to See also: lead a See also: life of learned leisure at Rome, where he died on the 2nd of See also: October 1523
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His See also: work entitled See also: Dies Geniales appeared at Rome in 1522, and was constructed after the See also: model of the Nodes Atticae of Aulus See also: Gellius, and the Saturnalia of See also: Macrobius
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It consists of a confused mass of heterogeneous materials See also: relating to philology, antiquities, law, dreams, spectres, &c., and is characterized by considerable credulity
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