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Julius Caesar, and Scaliger, Joseph Justus Scaliger

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From: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Date: 20070301
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(born April 23, 1484, Riva, Republic of Venice—died Oct. 21, 1558, Agen, France) (born Aug. 5, 1540, Agen, France—died Jan. 21, 1609, Leiden, Holland) Classical scholars. Julius worked in botany, zoology, and grammar but was chiefly interested in developing an understanding and critical evaluation of the ancients. His most widely read book was his Poetics (1561), in which Greco-Roman rhetoric and poetics are used as a foundation for literary criticism. His son Joseph, a precocious student of language, studied in France, Germany, and Italy and taught in France before he was called ...

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