At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the elder Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal college at Auch.
Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken holy orders, was induced by the liberality of Gregory XIII to remain in Rome, where he died on the 4th of June 1585.
Muretus soon recognized Scaliger's merits, and introduced him to all the men that were worth knowing.
After visiting a large part of Italy, the travellers passed to England and Scotland, taking as it would seem La Roche Pozay on their way, for Scaliger's preface to his first book, the Conjectanea in Varronem, is dated there in December 1564.
Muretus in the latter part of his life professed the strictest orthodoxy; J Lipsius had been reconciled to the Church of Rome; Isaac Casaubon was supposed to he wavering but Scaliger was known to be hopeless, and as long as his supremacy was unquestioned the Protestants had the victory in learning and scholarship.
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His lectures gained rim a European reputation, and in 1578 he received a tempting >ffer from the king of Poland to become teacher of jurisprudence n his new college at Cracow.
Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken holy orders, was induced by the liberality of Gregory XIII.
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In this 2D space, works by the same author do tend to fall into groups, except that the sample of verse by Cicero (our smallest text and of a different genre from the other samples) is separated from the Ciceronian prose samples.
Also Muretus and Sigonio (two noted exponents of neo-Classical Latin style) overlap.
However, the genuine Ciceronian samples are more widely dispersed (variable) than those of the other Latin authors sampled, so this evidence is at present suggestive rather than conclusive.
Therefore there is no monarchic tendency to be found in Muret's drama, but the unending clash between political principles.
- In 1560 Jacques Grévin reworked the Latin tragedy of his master Muretus for the French stage, reinforcing the themes of political strife and inevitable change of power, while avoiding to glorify Caesar and monarchy.
This was the period when - some years later - Michel de Montaigne would underline the two sides of Caesar, his genius and his destructive power, and when Etienne de la Boëtie would criticize the actual state of slavery of the French people.
To shed further light on the authorship of the text, the researchers attempted to assign it to one of the popular Neo-Latin authors of the time, namely Sigonio, Muretus, Riccoboni or Vettori, using stylometry.
Muretus, however, could not be entirely ruled out as the author.
A stepwise linear discriminant analysis performed on Muretus and Sigonio only, which was 100% successful in assigning seven Muretus and seven Sigonio samples to their correct source, gave both halves of the Consolatio to Sigonio.
In Venice he produced editions of Terence and Horace, as well as Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius; and in Rome (as well as in Venice) he edited and expounded various portions of Cicero.
Scaliger describes Muretus as desiring to imitate the diffuseness of the modern Italians, but he also places him second in style to Cicero alone.
During the twenty years in which he lectured under severe restrictions in Rome, he foresaw the decline of learning in Italy and made every effort to arrest it.
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• Marc Antoine Muret (1526–85), better known by the Latin form of his name, Muretus, started his literary career in Paris as a member of the circle of young poets that also included Dorat and Ronsard, and in 1553 he published a French commentary on Ronsard’s Amours.
This particular collection of Muretus for students was apparently first published in 1739 and regularly republished during the 18th century.
An engraved portrait of Muretus serves as the frontispiece for vol.
From age eighteen Muretus taught classics at various schools; Michel de Montaigne was among his pupils.
In 1554, after being condemned for sodomy and heresy, Muretus fled to Italy, settling in Rome in 1563.
“To the Venetian period of Muretus’ life belong his editions for Paulus Manutius, of Horace, Terence (1555), Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius (1558), to which must be added the three orations De studiis litterarum (1555).
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Illustration: The story is told of a man named Muretus who was a notable scholar.
One of the doctors said, “Shall we try this experiment on this worthless creature?” In a barely conscious state Muretus heard the conversation.
You can’t do that to me!,” he quietly spoke in polished Latin, “Will you call that man worthless for whom Christ dies?” Despite Muretus’ circumstance he understood the firm ground of our worth--we were dear enough to have sacred blood shed.
The younger Scaliger was but a boy when Buchnnan visited at his father's house; but he inherited all his father's admiration of the Scottish poet, whom he declared to be decidedly superior to all the Latin poets of those times.
There he had for his associates, among other highly respectable names, the celebrated Turnebus and Muretus.
To Muretus, Buchanan addressed a copy of verses on a Tragedy written by him in his youth, entitled Julius Caesar; but Muretus had not as yet put forth those monstrosities of character, that ought long ago to have buried his name in oblivion.
The son of Christophe de Thou, first president of the Parlement of Paris, he studied at several French universities, especially at Valence, where he knew Scaliger.
Both when he accompanied the ambassador Paul de Foix to Italy (1572-76) and when he went to live in Guienne (1581), it was always his aim to make the acquaintance of the most celebrated men of intellect, such as Muretus, P. Manutius, the Pithous, and Montaigne.
During his sojourn in Guienne he knew Henry of Navarre, the future Henry IV.
The following story appeared in the Church Herald: "Muretus, a Christian scholar of the 16th century, became ill while on a trip.
The doctors who were called in to treat him did not know him.
The apostle Paul, referring to Christ, said that He "died for all" (2 Cor.
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But this whole business shoots a giant hole (I say this fully remembering what happened the last time I used such a phrase) in my theory that classicists are "awe"-fully conservative when it comes to the arrangement of their texts.
After all, our editions of Catullus have no poems 18, 19, or 20 because we still use the numbering of Muretus' edition (1554!) which speculatively inserted three additional poems after O Colonia, poems which were expelled by Lachmann in 1829 but whose trace still remains.
What was it about Ausonius that led to this chaos?
He brought to his queen that at which she could not wonder enough.
For, by affecting a certain liberty in censuring morals, he avoided all offence, under the cloak of simplicity." Of him and his compeers, Turnebus, and Muretus, and their friend Andrea Govea, Ronsard, the French court poet, said that they had nothing of the pedagogue about them but the gown and cap.
