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Julius Caesar Scaliger 1484-1558, Italian philologist and physician in France. Scaliger studied medicine and settled in France (1526), where he worked as a physician. A scholar of profound erudition, Scaliger was nevertheless contentious and arrogant and made many enemies, including Erasmus and Jerome Cardan. In his De causis linguae Latinae (1540), he analyzed Cicero's style, criticizing the earlier studies of his humanist predecessors. He wrote commentaries on the medical and botanical writings of Hippocrates, Theophrastus, and Aristotle and urged an improved classification of plants according to their unique characteristics. In his famous Poetics (1561, tr. 1905) he extolled Vergil and Seneca.

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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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