Alessandro Alessandri

Alessandro Alessandri also known as Alexander ab Alexandro (1461–1523) was a Neapolitan lawyer of great learning, who flourished towards the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, was descended of the ancient and noble family of the Alexandri of Naples.

We took so many pains, thus fatigued ourselves with so many reminders or controversies of law, [with learning such a variety of cases so farly involved], thus when I saw the judgment passed, according to virtue none other than its own...To the temerity of every remiss!

(in folio style), under the title of “Alexandri de Alexandro dies Geniales.” Andrew-Tiraqueau wrote a commentary on it, entitled “Semestria,” Lyons, 1586.

There is another work of his, published before the Genialium Dierum, but afterwards incorporated with it, entitled “Alexandri J. C. Napolitani Dissertationes quatuor de rebus admirundis, &c.” Rome, 4to (quarto), without date, or printer’s name.

Mr. Roscoe, who has introduced him in his life of Leo as a member of the academy of Naples, says that his works prove him to have been a man of extensive reading, great industry, and of a considerable share of critical ability, and perhaps as little tinctured with superstition as most of the writers of the age in which he lived.