GENTILI, ALBERICO. - Italian jurist, b. at Sanginesio (Macerata) on 14 January 1552, d. in London on 19 June 1608. A doctor of law at Perugia in 1572, he held the office of judge in Ascoli. Having returned to his homeland, he practiced as a jurist and compiled the statutes of the city. When his father fell under suspicion of Protestant faith, he fled with him to Carniola (Austria) and from there took refuge at Oxford (1582), where in 1578 he obtained the chair of civil law, and was later appointed advocate of the King of Spain at the court of the English Admiralty (1605).

He distinguished himself above all through numerous works on international law, by virtue of which, especially the De iure belli et pacis, he is regarded as a precursor of Horace in the autonomous and systematic treatment of this discipline.

Principal works: De iuris interpretibus dialogi sex (London 1582, etc., Turin 1937, edited by G. Astuti and S. Riccobono); De legationibus libri tres (London 1583, etc., New York 1924); De iure belli et pacis libri tres (London 1588-89, Oxford 1933); Disputationum de nuptiis libri VII (Hanau 1601); Disputationes tres de libris canonicis, etc. (ibid. 1605); Hispanicae advocacionis libri duo (ibid. 1613, etc., New York 1921).

Bibliography

BIBL.: A. G., Scritti e discorsi, by P. De Francisci, G. Del Vecchio, A. Giannini, A. Solmi, Rome 1936, which also contains (pp. 61-88) a very extensive Saggio di bibliografia gentiliana edited by G. Del Vecchio.

Zaccaria da San Mauro

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