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Julius Scaliger (1484–1558)
Scaliger, Julius Cæsar (skal’i-jer), originally Della Scala. A celebrated classical scholar, Italian by birth, French by adoption; born at the castle of La Rocca in 1484; died at Agen, 1558. He published an ‘Oration against Erasmus’ (1531), in reply to that scholar’s ‘Ciceronianus’; ‘Poems’ (1533–74), in Latin and filling several volumes; ‘Comic Metres’; and a variety of dissertations and essays on classical subjects.