JOSEPHUS JUSTUS SCALIGER (1540-1609)

EDITION OF THE CORRESPONDENCE

Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) has established a research project at the Warburg Institute (London) with the proceeds from his Balzan Prize, for the preparation of a critical edition of the correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609). The Scaliger Institute of the University of Leiden acts as co-sponsor.

Two Postdoctoral Fellows, Dr Paul Botley and Dr Dirk van Miert, are working on the project.

The edition will include about 1650 letters, about 800 of which were written by Scaliger. His correspondents include major figures as Dominicus Baudius, Tycho Brahe, Isaac Casaubon, the Dousa and Dupuy families, Daniel Heinsius, Joannes Kepler, Justus Lipsius, Claudius Salmasius, Jacques-Auguste de Thou, Marcus Welser and Joannes Woverius. The project is supervised by Anthony Grafton (Princeton) and Henk Jan de Jonge (Leiden). The edition, amounting to four thousand pages, is due to come out in 2011 and will be published by Droz (Geneva) in seven or eight volumes.

These pages present facts about the life, work and letters of Scaliger; a list of his correspondents; images of manuscript letters written by or addressed to Scaliger; images of some major correspondents and letter editors; images of title pages of some edited works and correspondences; a sample of an edited letter, a glossary of Scaliger's abusive language and a list of some (on-line) sources for the study of early modern letters.

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