Petrus Andreas Gambari or Pier Andrea Gambari (1480–1528) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Faenza (1528). (in Latin)"Bishop Petrus Andreas Gambari" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved June 8, 2017
Biography Born in Casalfiumanese in 1480, Gambari had a career as a jurist and law professor, specialising in both civil and canon law. He wrote several legal treatises during the Renaissance, and is most famous for his 1533 work on legal dialectics.
On 7 August 1528, during the papacy of Pope Clement VII, Gambari was appointed Bishop of Faenza. He held the office for only a few weeks before his death in Viterbo in September 1528.
Works and Legal Thought Gambari's primary contribution to legal scholarship is his treatise 'Dialectica legalis iuris utriusque' (initially published c. 1507, with later editions such as Venice, 1533)."Legal Rhetoric And Dialectic In The Renaissance: Topica Legalia And Status Legales", ISSA Proceedings, 1998.
The work is an argument that lawyers and judges needed a clearer, more logical system for making legal arguments. Up until this point they had relied on old medieval commentaries, but Gamberi showed how to use formal logic and persuasive speaking to better interpret laws and handle court cases. This practical approach was widely adopted by his contemporaries: both lawyers and law students. With this work Gamberi formed the basis for the structured ways lawyers and judges still argue and interpret laws today..
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