ALBERICUS**, a laborious jurisconsult of the sixteenth century, with more erudition than taste or judgment, was born in 1551 at Castello-di-San-Genasio, in the March of Ancona, and studied at Perugia, where he took the degree of doctor in civil law at the age of twenty-one. Soon afterwards he was appointed a judge at Ascoli; but not having it in his power to profess there in security the Protestant religion, of which he was an ardent follower, he went to seek an asylum in Carniola, and ultimately in England. During his stay in London, where he continued for several years, he lived entirely on the bounty of some generous friends of the sciences. At length the Earl of Leicester procured him, in 1587, the chair of law in the university of Oxford, which, with other lucrative appointments, he held till his death in 1611. The labours of Albericus Gentilis in jurisprudence give him but small claims to our esteem. His views are often erroneous, and the sound doctrines which may be found in his works are buried in a mass of citations without end, from the philosophers, fathers, poets, historians, and jurisconsults. But his treatises on the law of nations have rendered his name worthy of a place in the history of jurisprudence. His book *De Jure Belli Gentilis*, contains excellent views on a science which Aristotle and Cicero have not even touched on; and if the author has not sufficiently fathomed his subject, he has at least the merit of having furnished abundant materials to Grotius, who knew better how to use them.

An exact list of the works of Gentilis may be found in the Mémoires de Néron (tomes xv. and xx.); but it may be sufficient here to indicate the following: *Liber Conditionum*, Wittemberg, 1580, 8vo; *De Jure Interpretationis Distinctio Sex*, London, 4to; *De injustitia bellica Romanorum actio*, Oxford, 1590, 8vo; *De Jure Belli libri tres*, Hanau, 1598, 8vo; *Disputationes duas, primum de actibus et spectaculis fabulorum non notandis, secundum de abuso mendacii*, Hanau, 1599, 8vo; *Ad Joannem Reinholdum de Ludis Scientiae epistolae duo*, Middelburg, 1699, 4to; *Disputationes tres, primum de Jure Canonicus, secundo de Libris Juris Civilis, tertio de Legitimatis sectariis Bibliorum versionibus vulgo accensis*, Hanau, 1604 and 1605, 8vo; *De Ligaturae mixtae disputatio pericopia*, Hanau, 1604, 8vo.