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5 unusual facts about Isaac Casaubon


Deipnosophistae

The encyclopaedist Sir Thomas Browne wrote a Latin essay on Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars following the publication of the Deipnosophistae in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.

Hermetica

However the classical scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) successfully argued that some, mainly those dealing with philosophy, betrayed too recent a vocabulary.

Isaac Casaubon

This was followed by the text of Polyaenus, an editio princeps, 1589; a text of Aristotle, 1590; and a few notes contributed to Estienne's editions of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Pliny's Epistolae.

Offers came to him from various quarters, including Nîmes, Heidelberg and Sedan, France.

Palladas

However, Isaac Casaubon dismisses him in two contemptuous words as versificator insulsissimus ("a most coarse poet").



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