[6] Étienne Pasquier, _Recherches sur la France_, IX. 39 (cited by Dareste, _Essai sur François Hotman_, Paris, 1850, p. 17): ‘Le siècle de l’an mil cinq cens nous apporta une nouvelle estude de loix qui fut de faire un mariage de l’estude du droict avec les lettres humaines par un langage latin net et poly: et trouve trois premiers entrepreneurs de ce nouveau mesnage, Guillaume Budé, François, enfant de Paris, André Alciat, Italien Milanois, Udaric Zaze, Alleman né en la ville de Constance.’ Savigny, _Geschichte des römischen Rechts im Mittelalter_, ed. 2, vol. VI., p. 421: ‘Nun sind es zwei Männer, welche als Stifter und Führer der neuen Schule angesehen werden können: Alciat in Italien und Frankreich, Zasius in Deutschland. Die ersten Schriften, worin die neue Methode erscheint, fallen in das zweite Decennium des fünfzehnten [_corr._ sechzehnten] Jahrhunderts.’ Andrea Alciato was born at Alzate near Milan in 1492, studied at Pavia and Bologna, in 1518 was called to teach at Avignon, went to Milan in 1520, to Bourges in 1528, was afterwards at Pavia, Bologna and Ferrara, died at Pavia in 1550 (Pertile, _Storia del diritto italiano_, ed. 2, vol. II. (2), p. 428). Ulrich Zäsi was born in 1461, studied at Tübingen and at Freiburg where he became town-clerk and afterwards professor of law, died in 1535. See Stintzing, _Ulrich Zasius_, Basel, 1857, where (pp. 162-216) the intercourse between Erasmus, Zäsi, Alciato and Budé is described. The early Italian humanists had looked on jurisprudence with disdain and disgust. See Geiger, _Renaissance und Humanismus_, 1882, pp. 500-503; Voigt, _Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums_, ed. 3, vol. II., pp. 477-484. Gradually, so I understand, philologians such as Budé (d. 1540) began to discover that there was matter interesting to them in the Corpus Juris, and a few jurists turned towards the new classical learning. See Tilley, _Humanism under Francis I._, in _English Historical Review_, vol. XV., pp. 456 ff. In 1520 Zäsi, writing to Alciato, said ‘All sciences have put off their dirty clothes: only jurisprudence remains in her rags.’ (Stintzing, _Ulrich Zasius_, p. 107.) [Sidenote: _Rabelais and the commentators._]