From there, Alberico went on to the German university towns of Tübingen and Heidelberg.
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In 1584 Gentili and Jean Hotman (1552—1636) were asked by the government to advise on the treatment of Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza (about 1540–1604), who had been implicated in the so-called Throckmorton plot against Queen Elizabeth I.
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Alberico Gentili was born into a noble family in the town of San Ginesio in what is now Marche, in Italy.