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Alberico Gentili

1552 - 1608

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Alberico Gentili (14 January 1552 – 19 June 1608) 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberico Gentili has received more than 166,592 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alberico Gentili is the 56th most popular lawyer (down from 41st in 2019), the 2,865th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,523rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Lawyer.

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  • 52.18

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Alberico Gentili ranks 56 out of 136. Before him are Robert Bilott, Dmitry Bogrov, Radhabinod Pal, Valtazar Bogišić, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, and Jean Domat. After him are Paul Alexander, Hisashi Owada, Hersch Lauterpacht, Louis Brandeis, Roy Cohn, and René David.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Alberico Gentili ranks 20. Before him are Agrippa d'Aubigné, Pietro Cataldi, Anna of Cleves, Paolo Sarpi, Marfa Sobakina, and Barbara Longhi. After him are Edward Coke, Richard Hakluyt, and Gabriello Chiabrera. Among people deceased in 1608, Alberico Gentili ranks 15. Before him are Marie Eleonore of Cleves, Ğazı II Giray, Sigismund Rákóczi, Bernardo Buontalenti, Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, and Bartolomeo Carducci. After him are Ivan Bolotnikov, Philipp Nicolai, and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alberico Gentili ranks 2,865 out of 5,161. Before him are Giuseppe Amisani (1881), Carlo Caffarra (1938), Ignazio Giunti (1941), Ennio Flaiano (1910), Jimmy Fontana (1934), and Teodolfo Mertel (1806). After him are Alvise II Mocenigo (1628), Pietro Ferraris (1912), Carlo Contarini (1580), Julius Obsequens (400), Angelo Peruzzi (1970), and Laurence of Canterbury (550).

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Among LAWYERS In Italy

Among lawyers born in Italy, Alberico Gentili ranks 5. Before him are Irnerius (1050), Baldus de Ubaldis (1327), Alfenus Varus (-100), and Cino da Pistoia (1270). After him are Dario Franceschini (1958).

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