biography
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Scaliger, Julius Caesar
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originally Benedetto Bordone
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pronunciation:
[skalijer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1484–1558)
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| biography:
| Humanist scholar, born in Riva, N Italy. He studied medicine at Padua, became a French citizen in 1528, and settled in Agen, where he wrote learned works on grammar, philosophy, botany, zoology, and literary criticism. Titles include De plantis (1556) and his best-known work, Poetice (1561). |
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