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 that he would be allowed to retire in peace

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 in Leiden. Scaliger had originally

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 21 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger & the Thesaurus Temporum Joseph Juste Scaliger worked on his Thesaurus Temporum from 1599 until 1606. These years were not free from the usual

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 philologist he was always curious about the

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 Julius Caesar Scaliger in 1594 Joseph Scaliger

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 himself to be of noble birth, and never

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 succeeded Justus Lipsius as Professor of

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 Joseph Juste Scaliger. The fragile Treaty

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 upon one of the most important projects

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 in yet another public altercation.

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 in the Roman poet and astrologer

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 is remembered, it is for his friendship

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 returned to France via Basle.

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 philological projects that would never see

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 projects undertaken by fellow scholars.

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 of these, his study of the Astronomica

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 of these, his study of the Astronomica

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 Vergiliana at Lyon, scribbling a pair of

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 his notes on the so-called Appendix

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 writings to be published under his own name.