Background
Alessandro Alessandri was born at Naples about the year 1461.
Alessandro Alessandri was born at Naples about the year 1461.
Alessandro Alessandri studied law at Naples and Rome, and afterwards practised for a time as advocate in both cities.
Alessandro Alessandri is said to have been royal proto-notary at Naples in 1490. Dissatisfied, according to his own account, with the corrupt administration of justice, he at length quitted the bar and devoted himself entirely to literary pursuits, especially to the study of philology and antiquities.
A sinecure appointment, which he owed to the favour of the pope, enabled him to lead a life of learned leisure at Rome, where he died on the 2nd of October 1523.
Alessandro Alessandri's work entitled Dies Gcniales appeared at Rome in 1522, and was con-structed after the model of the Nodes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, and the Saturnalia of Macrobius. It consists of a confused mass of heterogeneous materials relating to philology, antiquities, law, dreams, spectres, and is characterized by considerable credulity.
Alessandro Alessandri was a Neapolitan lawyer of great learning, who flourished towards the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century.
