Alexander de Tartagnis ( 1424 – 1477) was an Italian

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

. After completing his studies in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, he became an assessor at the Conservatore della Giustizia and taught law in Bologna,

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

and

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

. His work includes commentaries on select parts of the ''

Pandects The ''Digest'', also known as the Pandects ( la, Digesta seu Pandectae, adapted from grc, πανδέκτης , "all-containing"), is a name given to a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine e ...

'' and on other works, as well as more than 1200 advisory opinions. He reports that, for humanitarian reasons, he did not issue advisory opinions in the disfavour of the accused in criminal cases.

Paulus Castrensis Paulus Castrensis was an Italian jurist of the 14th century. Life He studied under Baldus de Ubaldis at Perugia, and was a fellow-pupil with Cardinal de Zabarella. He was admitted to the degree of doctor of civil law in the University of Avignon, ...

was one of his teachers.

Jason de Mayno Jason of Mayno (Giasone de Mayno) (1435–1519) was an Italian jurist. With his pupil Filippo Decio he was one of the last of the Bartolist commentators on Roman law. Life He was considered to be the illegitimate son of the patrician Andreotto del ...

, Bartholomaeus Socinus, and Ludovico Bolognini were three of his students.

Works

* File:Tartagni, Alessandro – Consilia, 15th-century – BEIC 12675088.jpg, ''Consilia'', 15th-century manuscript, Vatican City,

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana The Vatican Apostolic Library ( la, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, it, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. Formally es ...

, Fondo Patetta, Patetta 205. File:Tartagni - Codicis partem commentaria, 1570 - 422.tiff, ''Codicis partem commentaria'', 1570 File:Tartagni, Alessandro – Interpraetationes ad frequentiores Pandectarum titulos, leges et paragraphos, 1595 – BEIC 11117317.tif, ''Interpraetationes ad frequentiores Pandectarum titulos, leges et paragraphos'', 1595

References

* 1420s births 1477 deaths Year of birth uncertain 15th-century Italian jurists University of Bologna alumni Academic staff of the University of Bologna Academic staff of the University of Ferrara Academic staff of the University of Padua {{Italy-law-bio-stub