19 Facts About Alberico Gentili

Alberico Gentili was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford for 21 years.

Alberico Gentili is regarded as the co-founder of the field of international law, and thus known as the "Father of international law".

The first medieval writer on public international law, in 1587 Gentili became the first non-English person to be a Regius Professor.

Alberico Gentili authored numerous books, which are recognized to be among the most essential sources for international legal doctrines, yet that include theological and literary subjects.

Alberico Gentili was born into a noble family n the town of San Ginesio, Macerata, Italy.

Alberico Gentili obtained a doctoral degree in law at the University of Perugia at the age of 20.

Early in 1580, Alberico Gentili set out for England, preceded by a reputation that procured him offers of professorships at Heidelberg and at Tubingen, where Scipio was left to commence his university studies.

Subsequently, Alberico Gentili was appointed as the Regius professor of civil law at Oxford University by the Chancellor of Oxford University, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

Alberico Gentili was commissioned to prepare a revised version of the statutory laws of his home town, a task which he completed in 1577.

Alberico Gentili chose the topic to which his attention had thus been directed as a subject for a disputation when the Earl of Leicester and Sir Philip Sidney visited the schools at Oxford in the same year; and this was six months later expanded into a book, the.

Alberico Gentili held the regius professorship until his death, but he turned more and more to practical work in London from about 1590.

Alberico Gentili practised in the High Court of Admiralty, where the continental civil law rather than the English common law was applied.

In 1600, Alberico Gentili was called to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

Alberico Gentili died in London and was buried in the Church of St Helen Bishopsgate in the City of London.

Alberico Gentili married Hester de Peigne, a French Huguenot, in 1589.

Between 1588 and 1589 Alberico Gentili published three booklets collected as De Jure Belli Commentationes Tres.

Alberico Gentili published De armis Romanis in two parts in 1590 and 1599.

The statue of Alberico Gentili is a monument made by Giuseppe Guastalla in 1908 in view of the third centenary of his death.

Alberico Gentili, who died in London in 1608, was the first to advocate humane treatment for Prisoners of War.