Giulio Claro

Giulio Claro, also known as Julius Clarus, was an Italian jurist and public official of the Renaissance, born on 6 January 1525 in Alessandria in the Duchy of Milan and dead on 13 April 1575. The son of the jurist and Milanese senator Giovanni Luigi Claro, he studied law at the University of Pavia under Andrea Alciato and took his doctorate in 1550. His public career took him through the Senate of Milan, a post as royal praetor in Cremona, the presidency of the Milanese extraordinary revenue magistracy and a seat as regent of the Council of Italy in Madrid. His reputation rests on the Liber V Sententiarum, the criminal law volume of his legal encyclopedia Sententiae receptae, which together with the work of Tiberio Deciani and Prospero Farinacci supplied the theoretical foundation of the common criminal law of Europe until national penal codes replaced it in the nineteenth century.