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Scaliger, Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar Scaliger (della Scala, Scaligeri, Bordon, Bordonius), 1484-1558. Catholic humanist philosopher, physician and botanist. A stout follower of Aristotle, he won fame for his vitriolic attacks on Erasmus. His views on literature, which placed Seneca and Virgil above the Greeks, were widely followed.

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• - Information drawn from various encyclopedias about this Renaissance polemicist.
  
• - Concise entry from the 2001 edition.
  
• - Entry incorporating material from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
  
• - Article by Paul Lejay on this scholar's life and writings.
  
  

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