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Scaliger’s Final Years

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 23 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger After devoting a lifetime to the highest flights of scholarship, Joseph Juste Scaliger must have expected

Scaliger’s Thesaurus Temporum

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 22 ~Part 1~ Temporum (First Edition 1606) In 1606 Joseph Juste Scaliger’s long-anticipated edition of Eusebius’s Chronicon was published

Completing the Thesaurus Temporum

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 21 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger & the Thesaurus Temporum Joseph Juste Scaliger worked on his Thesaurus Temporum from 1599 until 1606.

Writing the Thesaurus Temporum

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 20 ~Part 1~ Edition of Scaliger’s Manilius Joseph Juste Scaliger was a scholar of many talents and interests. As a polyglot and a

The Road to the Thesaurus Temporum

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 19 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger After the publication of the Epistle on the Antiquity and Splendour of the Scaliger Family, and The Life

Scaliger’s Dubious Nobility

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 18 ~Part 1~ Caesar Scaliger Joseph Juste Scaliger was an egregiously vain man, with an inflated sense of his own importance. He believed

Scaliger’s Early Years in Leiden

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 17 ~Part 1~ Building, Leiden University In the summer of 1593 Joseph Juste Scaliger moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic, where he

Scaliger in the Wilderness

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 16 ~Part 1~ IV of France before Paris The publication of De Emendatione Temporum in 1583 marked an important watershed in the life of

De Emendatione Temporum

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 15 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger After the publication of his edition of Marcus Manilius’s Astronomica in 1579 Joseph Juste Scaliger embarked

Scaliger Against Insulanus

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 14 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger After the publication of his edition of Marcus Manilius’s Astronomica, Joseph Juste Scaliger became embroiled

Scaliger and Marcus Manilius

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 13 ~Part 1~ Astronomica of Manilius and the Celestial Sphere In the last article in this series we saw how Joseph Juste Scaliger’s interest

Scaliger and Hippocrates

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 12 ~Part 1~ Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes The French physician and scholar François Vertunien is hardly known today. But when he

Scaliger & the Latin Elegiac Poets

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 11 ~Part 1~ d’Abain, Thurageau In the late summer of 1574, following the conclusion of the Fourth War of the Huguenots, Joseph Juste

Scaliger & Sextus Pompeius Festus

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 10 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger In the summer of 1573, when Joseph Juste Scaliger was living and teaching in Geneva, he hatched several

Scaliger and the Corpus Hermeticum

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 9 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger During his brief sojourn in Geneva, Joseph Juste Scaliger contributed in a small way to a number of philological

Scaliger’s Ausonius

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 8 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger During his two years in Geneva (1572-74), Joseph Juste Scaliger undertook several philological projects. One

Scaliger’s Ajax Lorarius

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 8 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger During his two years in Geneva (1572-74), Joseph Juste Scaliger undertook several philological projects. One

Joseph Juste Scaliger in Geneva

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 7 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger In the last article in this series, we saw how Joseph Juste Scaliger completed his edition of the Appendix

The Virgilian Appendix and the Catalecta

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 6 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger If Joseph Juste Scaliger is to be believed, it was in 1567, when he was twenty-seven years old, that he compiled

Lycophron of Chalcis

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 5 ~Part 1~ Cassandra As we saw in the last article, Joseph Juste Scaliger’s Coniectanea (Conjectures on Varro) was the first of his