Scaliger
JULIUS CÆSAR (originally DELLA SCALA), a celebrated Italian scholar; born near Lago di Garda, Italy, April 23, 1484. He went to France in 1526, and there practiced medicine. According to some scholars, "no one of the ancients could be placed above him, and the age in which he lived could not show his equal" in learning and talent. He published an "Oration against Erasmus" (1531), in reply to that scholar's "Ciceronianus"; "Poems" (1533-1574), in Latin, filling several volumes; "Comic Meters"; and a variety of dissertations and essays on classical subjects. He died in Agen, France, Oct. 21, 1558,