Alberico Gentili, Italian-English academic and jurist (died 1608)

Alberico Gentili

Italian jurist (1552–1608)

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. He is regarded as the co-founder of the field of…