Guido Panciroli

Guido Panciroli (1523 to 1599) was an Italian jurist and law professor of the sixteenth century, born in Reggio Emilia, the son of the jurist Alberto Panciroli. He studied law at Ferrara, took his doctorate in civil and canon law at Padua in October 1547, and taught civil law at Padua before moving in 1570 to Turin, where Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy gave him the first chair of civil law. He returned to Padua in 1582 and taught there until his death. Students came from across Europe to hear him, and he is remembered for bringing humanist and historical learning into the study of jurisprudence. His De claris legum interpretibus was an influential early history of classical and medieval jurisprudence, and his Rerum memorabilium, a survey of arts and knowledge lost since antiquity, was widely read well beyond legal circles.