Giasone del Maino

[2] He was brought up in Milan, and studied law at the University of Pavia with the Bartolist jurist Alexander de Tartagnis.

After a few years in Padua he returned to Pavia, where he lectured to large classes of Italian, French, and German students.

[3] In that year Andrea Alciato came to Pavia to study with him and his pupil Filippo Decio.

Giasone del Maino belonged to the so-called school of the postglossators, who applied Scholastic methodology to both civil and canon law in order to develop universal legal principles.

He distinguished himself for combining this rigorous method with profound Classical scholarship, which made him a forerunner of legal humanism.