Muretus

Marcus Antonius Muretus is the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret French humanist ( born April 12, 1526 Muret near Limoges, † June 4, 1585 in Rome).

Life and work

At the age of eighteen he attracted the attention of Julius Caesar Scaliger on and was invited to the Archbishop's School for Also to lectures. Afterwards he taught Latin in Villeneuve- d'Agen and then in Bordeaux, the Collège de Guyenne 1547-1548, as Michel de Montaigne also studied there. Some time before 1552, he gave a series of lectures at the College of Cardinal Lemoine, Collège du Cardinal Lemoine in Paris in front of a large audience, including King Henry II and Queen Catherine de Medici.

His success earned him many enemies, who in 1553 on charges of heresy and sodomy let him cast into prison, but from the powerful friends freed him again. The same charges in Toulouse, he was able to escape only to escape. The archives of the city prove that he was burned in effigy in 1554 as a Huguenot.

After an uncertain wandering life and a few years in Italy, he received an invitation in 1559 by Cardinal Ippolito d' Este, to settle in Rome, which he accepted also. 1561 visited again Muret France in the wake of the Cardinal at the conference between Catholics and Protestants in Poissy.

1563 he returned to Rome. His lectures throughout Europe gave him reputation of which he in 1578 a tempting offer of the King of Poland, Stefan Batory was to become a teacher of jurisprudence in its new College in Krakow. Muretus, however, who had joined a religious order in 1576, was. Due to the generosity of Pope Gregory XIII induced to remain in Rome, where he died seven years later.

Works

Complete editions of his works:

• Editio princeps, Verona (1727-1730);
• David Ruhnken (1789 )
• C. H. Frotscher (1834-1841)
• Scripta Selecta by J. Frey, two volumes (1871 );
• Friedrich August Wolf and JH Fasi: Variae Lectiones (1791-1828)

Among his works is also a Latin tragedy Julius Caesar ( 1550):

• Julius Caesar, P. Blanchard, Thonon les Bains, Alidades, 1995.