Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614
Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614
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USDThe Victorian intellectual Mark Pattison (1813–84) published Isaac Casaubon in 1875, while rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Casaubon (1559–1614), a French Protestant and distinguished Renaissance scholar, was the author of critical texts and commentaries on a vast corpus of classical authors, including Diogenes Laertius, Theocritus, Aristotle and Strabo. His magnum opus was his text and commentary on Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae. Pattison's account is based on letters, diaries, unpublished lecture notes and students' notes, published works, city archives, and university documents. The work covers Casaubon's youth, education, scholarly career, and final years spent in England (1610–14), where he influenced the rising 'Anglican school'. In his image of Casaubon, Pattison paints the picture of the ideal scholar, and through his portrayal reveals his deeply Victorian convictions and sensibilities. The work is an invaluable source for the life of the Renaissance scholar and the ideas and perspectives of the Victorian man.
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October 2011Paperback
9781108034876
552 pages
216 × 140 × 31 mm
0.69kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Parentage and education. 1559–78
- 2. Geneva. 1578–96
- 3. Montpellier. 1596–9
- 4. Paris. 1600–10
- 5. London. 1610–14
- 6. Casaubon and Baronius' Church History
- 7. London, Ely, and Cambridge. 1610–14
- 8. Oxford visit. 1613
- 9. London. 1610–14 continued
- 10. Last illness, death, and characteristic. 1614
- 11. Index of Casaubon's works in chronological order.
