Andrea Alciato

Andrea Alciato 1492-1550, was a jurist born in Alzano, near Milan, Italy on the 12th of January 1492. Alciato 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. Alciato 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 Britain.

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Milan - 1492 - 16th century - Emblemata - Emblem book

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Andrea Alicato died at Pavia in 1550.

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Pavia - 1550

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Alciati's history of Milan, under the title Rerum Potriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV., was published posthumously at Milan in 1625.

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