Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo. Volume II: Translation.
Gentili, Alberico [1552-1608]. Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo. Vol. II. A Translation of the Text, by Frank Frost Abbott, With a List of Authors Prepared by Arthur Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1921. 11a, x, [16], 284, 2 pp. Original cloth with black ink stamped spine. Moderate shelfwear with some rubbing and bumping to spine and extremities. Internally clean. A good copy. $85. * A title in the Carnegie Classics of International Law series. A foundational work of public international law that examines cases related to maritime law and war. This specific volume (Volume II) provides the English translation of the original Latin text. The book is a collection of legal opinions or "pleas" that Alberico Gentili, an Anglo-Italian jurist and diplomat, prepared while serving as an advocate for Spanish clients in the English Court of Admiralty. One of the principal treatises of the notable Anglo-Italian jurist and diplomat. "He has increasingly been recognized as the most notable forerunner of Grotius in establishing public international law and the first true scholar and writer on modern international law as the law of the community of states.": Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 518.
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