Antonino Tesauro - Gaspare Antonio Tesauro Lot n° 1

Autographs - Tesauro, Antonino - Tesauro, Gaspare Antonio - Two handwritten letters Two beautiful handwritten letters: one from the famous jurist Antonino Tesauro, grandfather of the more famous Emanuele Tesauro, dated Fossano 27 January 1564, 335 x 225 mm.,; the other by his son Gaspare Antonio (1563-1617), also a jurist but far more famous and illustrious than his father, the letter measures 238 x 215 mm. and was signed in Turin on 15 July 1584.  SPECIALIST NOTES In the first letter, Antonino Tesauro mourns his father's death and turns to his illustrious interlocutor to remember him with affection and devotion, trusting in his benevolence and grace. The incipit is beautiful: "The rare and virtuous men want to leave such a good name of themselves that with such glory it seems that they are not dead but live perpetually in the memory of the virtuous. This gentleman of mine gives me so much consolation that it partially relieves me acuteness of the pain which I felt and feel of the sudden death of my father". The second is a payment receipt relating to a university teaching, an important document because it certifies the non-ascribability of the Tesauro in a stable way to the Piedmontese university, with which he occasionally collaborated. He contributed with his father to the collection and reworking of the decisions of the Senate of Piedmont, which were published by Antonino Tesauro in 1590 with the title of Novae Decisiones Sacri Senatus Pedemontani, a work that collected and partly reworked from a doctrinal point of view the reasoned sentences issued by the Supreme Court of Piedmont. This collaboration was undoubtedly a valid training ground for his subsequent activity as a writer of legal works, in which he excelled.