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unusual facts about Julius Caesar Scaliger


Muretus

At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the elder Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal college at Auch.


Pentalogy

... So it is that Scaliger and Minturno prescribe five acts, and that Castelvetro ... points out that poets seem to have found the five-act form most suitable.

Richard Swineshead

Robert Burton (d. 1640) wrote in The Anatomy of Melancholy that "Scaliger and Cardan admire Suisset the calculator, qui pene modum excessit humani ingenii whose talents were almost superhuman".

Tragedy

The most important sources for French tragic theatre in the Renaissance were the example of Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle (and contemporary commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro), although plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, etc., from the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections (Italian, French and Spanish).


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