Alberico Gentili
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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 Oxf
Engraved portrait of Gentili
In titulum Digestorum De verborum significatione commentarius, 1614
Statue of Alberico Gentili
Hugo Grotius
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Hugo Grotius, also known as Hugo de Groot or Huig de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and stud
Alberico Gentili
…in Latin). Hanau: Andreas Wechel, Erben & Johann Aubry, Erben. 1614. Gentili's fame as an international lawyer was soon eclipsed by the publication of Hugo Grotius' seminal work De Iure Belli ac Pacis in 1625 even though Grotius owed much to Gentili's writings. It was only in the 19th century that interest in…
Portrait of Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1631
Grotius at age 16, by Jan Antonisz. van Ravesteyn, 1599
Page written in Grotius' hand from the manuscript of De Indis (circa 1604/05)
Portrait of Grotius at age 25 (Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1608)