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| | Julius Caesar Scaliger Summary |
 | | Julius Caesar Scaliger or Giulio Cesare Della Scala (Riva, Lake Garda, April 23, 1484–Agen, October 21, 1558), was an Italian scholar and physician spending a large part of his career in France. |
 | | He left the service of Maximilian, and after a brief employment by another kinsman, the duke of Ferrara, he decided to quit the military life, and in 1514 entered as a student at the University of Bologna. |
 | | He determined to take holy orders, in the expectation that he would become cardinal, and then pope, when he would wrest from the Venetians his duchy of Verona, of which the republic had despoiled his ancestors. |
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