Scaliger, JJ

…He took this name because he believed he was related to the family of Della Scala, Prince of Verona. His father, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558), was born in Italy and spent the first half of his life as a mercenary throughout Italy. In 1526, he settled in Agen in southern France and became a physician. In 1531, he published a pamphlet on Latin stylistics that criticized Erasmus and advocated a complete imitation of Cicero, which earned him a reputation as a writer. In his De Poesie (1561), he attempted to establish a literary history and theory based on consistent principles, covering all Greek and Latin verse works. …

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…ベローナの君主デラ･スカラの家系に連なると信じてこう名のっていた。父ユリウス･カエサルJulius Caesar Scaliger(1484‐1558)はイタリア生れで，前半生は傭兵としてイタリア各地をわたり歩き，1526年南フランスのアジャンに定住して医師となった。そのかたわら，31年エラスムスを非難しキケロの全面的模倣を主唱するラテン語文体論の小冊子を発表して文名をあげ，《詩論》(1561)では，ギリシア･ラテン語の全韻文作品を対象として，一貫した原則に基づいた文学史と文学論を確立しようと試みた。…

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