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The works of one of the most important French humanists of the 16th century

MURET, [Marc Antoine].
Orationes, epistolae, & poemata, cum praefatione & insignibus augmentis M. Jacobi Thomasi.

Engraved portrait of the author, title printed in red and black..

Engraved portrait of the author, title printed in red and black..



Editio plane nova, caeteris correctior longè, ordinatio & locupletior. Sub calcem adjectae sunt Nupt Leipzig, Christian Scholvin,for the widow and heirs of Johann Gross, 1698. 4 parts in one vol. 8vo. 19th century dark green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, sides with double fillet borders gilt central coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, gilt inner dentelles. Engraved portrait of the author, title printed in red and black.. 74, 786, (2), 228, 102, (12) pp.

Interesting edition of the collected letters, orations and poems of Muret, edited by the famous German philogist from Leipzig Jakob Thomasius (1622-1684), one of the teachers of Leibnitz who remebered him with great affections; copy from the library of Gomez de la Cortina.
Marc Antoine Muret(us) (1526-1585) was a French humanist, who was born at Muret near Limoges on the 12th of April 1526. At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the elder Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal college at Auch. He afterwards taught Latin at Villeneuve, and then at Bordeaux. Some time before 1552 he delivered a course of lectures in the college of Cardinal Lemoine at Paris, which was largely attended, Henry II and his queen being among his hearers. His success made him many enemies, and he was thrown into prison on a disgraceful charge, but released by the intervention of powerful friends. The same accusation was brought against him at Toulouse, and he only saved his life by timely flight. The records of the town show that he was burned in effigy as a Huguenot and as shame fully immoral (1554).
After a wandering and insecure life of some years in Italy, he received and accepted the invitation of Cardinal Ippolyte d'Este to settle in Rome in 1559. In 1561 he revisited France as a member of the cardinal's suite at the conference of Roman Catholics and Protestants held at Poissy. He returned to Rome in 1563. His lectures gained him a European reputation, and in 1578 he received a tempting offer from the king of Poland to become teacher of jurisprudence at his new college at Cracow. 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.

Good copy from the library of J. Gomez de la Cortina, with his coat of arms on covers and his bookplate on inside front cover, also with book plate of J.R. Thomé.- (Some tears in 2 leaves of the index.).
VD17 3:007989G; Cf. Oberlé, Poètes Néo-Latins p. 144; not in Cioranescu.

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