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GENTILI, ALBERICO (1552—16o8)

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GENTILI, ALBERICO (1552—16o8) , See also:Italian jurist, who has See also:great claims to be considered the founder of the See also:science of See also:international See also:law, second son of Matteo Gentili, a physician of See also:noble See also:family and scientific See also:eminence, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:January 1552 at Sanginesio, a small See also:town of the See also:march of See also:Ancona which looks down from the slopes of the See also:Apennines upon the distant Adriatic. After taking the degree of See also:doctor of See also:civil law at the university of See also:Perugia, and holding a judicial See also:office at See also:Ascoli, he returned to his native See also:city, and was entrusted with the task of recasting its statutes, but, sharing the See also:Protestant opinions of his See also:father, shared also, together with a See also:brother, Scipio, afterwards a famous See also:professor at See also:Altdorf, his See also:flight to See also:Carniola, where in 1579 Matteo was appointed physician to the duchy. The See also:Inquisition condemned the fugitives as contumacious, and they soon received orders to quit the dominions of See also:Austria. Alberico set out for See also:England, travelling by way of See also:Tubingen and See also:Heidelberg, and everywhere See also:meeting with the reception to which his already high reputation entitled him. He arrived at See also:Oxford in the autumn of 158o, with a commendatory See also:letter from the See also:earl of See also:Leicester, at that See also:time See also:chancellor of the university, and was shortly afterwards qualified to See also:teach by being admitted to the same degree which he had taken at Perugia. His lectures on See also:Roman law soon became famous, and the dialogues, disputations and commentaries, which he published henceforth in rapid See also:succession, established his position as an accomplished civilian, of the older and severer type, and secured his See also:appointment in 1587 to the regius professorship of civil law. It was, however, rather by an application of the old learning to the new questions suggested by the See also:modern relations of states that his labours have produced their most lasting result. In 1584 he was consulted by See also:government as to the proper course to be pursued with See also:Mendoza, the See also:Spanish See also:ambassador, who had been detected in plotting against See also:Elizabeth. He See also:chose the topic to which his See also:attention had thus been directed as a subject for a disputation when Leicester and See also:Sir See also:Philip See also:Sidney visited the See also:schools at Oxford in the same See also:year; and this was six months later See also:expanded into a See also:book, the De legationibus libri tres. In 1588 Alberico selected the law of See also:war as the subject of the law disputations at the See also:annual " See also:Act " which took See also:place in See also:July; and in the autumn published in See also:London the De Jure See also:Belli commentatio prima. A second and a third Commentatio followed, and the whole See also:matter, with large additions and improvements, appeared at See also:Hanau, in 1598, as the De Jure Belli See also:libel tres. It was doubtless in consequence of the reputation gained by these See also:works that Gentili became henceforth more and more engaged in forensic practice, and resided chiefly in London, leaving his Oxford See also:work to be partly discharged by a See also:deputy.

In 1600 he was admitted to be a member of See also:

Gray's See also:Inn, and in 16o5 was appointed See also:standing counsel to the See also:king of See also:Spain. He died on the loth of See also:June 16o8, and was buried, by the See also:side of Dr Matteo Gentili, who had followed his son to England, in the See also:churchyard of St See also:Helen's, Bishopsgate. By his wife, Hester de Peigni, he See also:left two sons, See also:Robert and See also:Matthew, and a daughter, See also:Anna, who married Sir See also:John See also:Colt. His notes of the cases in which he was engaged for the Spaniards were posthumously published in 1613 at Hanau, as His panicae advocationis libri duo. This was in accordance with his last wishes; but his direction that the See also:remainder of his See also:MSS. should be burnt was not complied with, since fifteen volumes of them found their way, at the beginning of the loth See also:century, from See also:Amsterdam to the Bodleian library. The true See also:history of Gentili and of his See also:principal writings has only been ascertained in See also:recent years, in consequence of a revived The following is probably a See also:complete See also:list of the writings of Gentili, with the places and See also:dates of their first publication : De See also:juris inter pretibus dialogi See also:sex (London, 1582); Lectionum et epist. quae ad See also:jus civile pertinent libri See also:tees (London, 1583–1584) ; De legationibus libri tres (London, 1585) ; Legal. comitiorum Oxon. actio (London, 1585–1586) ; De See also:divers. temp. appellationibus (Hanau, 1586); De nascendi See also:tern See also:pore dispulatio (Witteb., 1586) ; Disputationum decas prima (London, 1587); Conditionum See also:liber singularis (London, 1587); De jure belli See also:comm. prima (London, 1588) ; secunda, ib. (1588–1589) ; tertia (1589) ; De injustitia bellica Romanorum (Oxon, 1590) ; Ad tit. de Malef. et Math. de Prof. et Med. (Hanau, 1593) ; De jure belli libri tees (Hanau, 1598) ; De arms Romanis, &c. (Hanau, 1599) ; De actoribus et de abusu mendacii (Hanau, 1599); De ludis scenicis epist. duae (Middleburg, 1600) ; Ad I. Maccabaeorum et de linguarum mistura disp. (Frankfurt, 1600) ; Lectiones Virgilianae (Hanau, 1600) ; De nuptiis libri septem (16o1) ; In tit. si quis principi, et ad See also:leg. Jul. maiest.

(Hanau, 1604) ; De latin. See also:

vet. Bibl. (Hanau, 1604) ; De libro Pyano (Oxon, 1604) ; Laudes Acad. Perus. et Oxon. (Hanau, 1605) ; De unione Angliae et Scotiae (London, 16o5); Disputationes tres, de libris See also:jur. can., de libris jur. civ., de latinitate vet. vers. (Hanau, 16o5); Regales disput. tees, de pot. regis absoluta, de unione regnorum, de vi civium (London, 16o5); Hispanicae advocationis libri duo (Hanau, 1613) ; In tit. de verb. signif. (Hanau, 1614) ; De legatis in test. (Amsterdam, 1.661). An edition of the See also:Opera omnia, commenced at See also:Naples in 1770, was cut See also:short by the See also:death of the publisher, Gravier, after the second See also:volume. Of his numerous unpublished writings, Gentili complained that four volumes were lost " pessimo pontificiorum facinore," meaning probably that they were left behind in his flight to Carniola. AurHoRITIEs.—Several tracts by the Abate Benigni in Colucci, Antichitd See also:Picene (1790) ; a dissertation by W. Reiger annexed to the Program of the See also:Groningen Gymnasium for 1867; an inaugural lecture delivered in 1874 by T.

E. See also:

Holland, translated into Italian, with additions by the author, by A. See also:Saffi (1884) ; the See also:preface to a new edition of the De jure belli (1877) and Studies in International Law (1898) (which see, for details as to the family and MSS. of Gentili), by the same; works by Valdarnini and Foglietti (1875), Speranza and De Giorgi (1876), Fiorini (a See also:translation of the De jure belli, with See also:essay, 1877), A. Saffi (1878), L. Marson (1885), M. Thamm (1896), B. Brugi (1898) T. A. See also:Walker (an See also:analysis of the principal works of Gentili) in his History of the Law of Nations, vol. i. (1899) H. Nezarel, in Pillet's Fondateurs de See also:droit international (1904) ; E. Agabiti (1908).

See also E. Comba, in the Rivista Christiana (1876–1877); Sir T. See also:

Twiss, in the Law See also:Review (1878); articles in the Revue de droit international (1875–1878, 1883, 1886, 1908); 0. Scalvanti, in the Annali dell' Univ. di Perugia, N.S., vol. viii. (1898). (T. E.

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