DE INDIS ET DE IURE BELLI RELECTIONES being Parts of Releciones Theologicae XII by Franciscus de Victoria

Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Very Good+. 1917. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Carnegie Classics of International Law; Edited by and introduction by Ernest Nys. Translation of text by John Pawley Bate. Revised Text, With Prefatory Remarks, list of Errata, and Index of Authors Cited by F. Wright. Clean and tight in original tan cloth binding with lettering in black at spine. Small scrape at lower outer edge of rear board. Former owner's name on front pastedown endpaper: "F. X. Dwyer" Francis Xavier Dwyer was co-author of a widely used textbook: "Introduction to the Study of Law," by Edmund M. Morgan and Francis X. Dwyer, and was a librarian at the Law Library of Harvard University and later for decades at the Law Library of Library of Congress. Franciscus de Victoria (1483-1546) was a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian and jurist, founder of the philosophical School of Salamanca, and dubbed by some as the "father of international law" for his contributions to the theory of just war and international law. Elected to the Prime Chair of theology at the University of Salamanca, Francicus promoted Thomism (the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas) until 1546. He renewed the methods of theology and natural law and encourage the Spanish monarch to limit the power exerted over the aborigines in the New World. He published nothing during his life, his work survived through notes taken by his students which greatly influenced the Dutch legal philosopher, Hugo Grotius. Contents: Part 1:Introduction by Ernest Nys, and Translation of the introduction (by John Pawley Bate); Part II: A translation of the text by John Pawley Bate; Part III: Revised Text by Herbert Francis Wright, with Preferatory Remarks, List of Errata, and Index of Authors Cited; Part IV: A Photographic Facsimile Reproduction of J. G. Simon's Edition of 1696. The text includes On the Indians Lately Discovered and The Law of War on Indians. .