ALESSANDRI, ALESSANDRO (ALEXANDER AB ALEX ANDRO) (1461-1523), Italian jurist, was born at Naples about the year 1461. His work entitled Dies Geniales appeared at Rome in 1522, and was constructed after the model of the Noctes 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, etc. and is characterized by con siderable credulity.