From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Reiss, Timothy J. | COPYRIGHT 1997 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

These first volumes of a projected five-volume labor of love testify to a continued growing interest in European humanism. Coming at the same time as Droz's French edition of the Poetics' fifth book, the present immense edition and German translation of Julius Caesar Scaliger's favorite work suggests that reevaluation of such major figures of the next generation as Carlo Sigonio, Christopher Clavius, J.J. Scaliger, and others is quickly extending to that of their immediate predecesso...