ALCIATI, ANDREA (1492-155o), Italian jurist, was born in Alzano, near Milan, on Jan. 12, 1492. He was one of the first to interpret the civil law by the history, languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute original research for the servile interpretations of the glossators. His Emblems, a collec tion of moral sayings in Latin verse, was translated into French, Italian and Spanish.