Alexandre Passerin d'Entrèves

Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves (also known in French as Alexandre and in English as Alexander; and sometimes referred to as Passerin d'Entrèves et Courmayeur; and known professionally in English as A. P. D'Entreves) (Turin, 26 April 1902 – 15 December 1985) was an Italian philosopher and historian of law. He was noted for his scholarship on political thought, particularly in the mediaeval and early modern period, and natural law theory.

Early life D'Entreves was a native of the Aosta Valley, Northern Italy.

Education He undertook university studies (including a thesis on Hegel) at the University of Turin. He then undertook a doctorate (awarded 1932) at the University of Oxford. He taught at least one course at Harvard (Spring 1957). Dante as a Political Thinker (Oxford University at the Clarendon Press)(1952); and The Notion of the State: An Introduction to Political Theory (OUP, 1967).

His hobbies included alpinism, and he also had "a deep interest in and love of music" and was an "avid collector of classical records".