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Scaliger, Julius Caesar

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Scaliger, Julius Caesar (1540–1609), the son of J. C. Scaliger, one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance; he has been described as ‘the founder of historical criticism’. He edited Manilius (1579) and issued critical editions of many classical authors.

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