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MERULA , GEORGIUS (the Latinized name of GIoaGIo MIRLANI; C. 143O_1494), See also:

Italian humanist and classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Alessandria in See also:Piedmont. The greater See also:part of his See also:life was spent at See also:Venice and See also:Milan, where he held a professorship and continued to See also:teach until his See also:death. To Merula we are indebted for the editio princeps of See also:Plautus (1472), of the Scriptores rei rusticae, See also:Cato, See also:Varro, See also:Columella, See also:Palladius (1472) and possibly of See also:Martial (1471). He also published commentaries on portions of See also:Cicero (especially the De finibus), on See also:Ausonius, See also:Juvenal, See also:Curtius See also:Rufus, and other classical authors. He wrote also Bellum scodrense (1474), on See also:account of the See also:siege of Scodra (See also:Scutari) by the See also:Turks, and Antiquitates vicecomitum, the See also:history of the See also:Visconti, See also:dukes of Milan, down to the death of Matteo the See also:Great (1322). He violently attacked See also:Politian (Poliziano), whose Miscellanea (a collection of notes on classical authors) were declared by Merula to be either plagiarized from his own writings or, when See also:original, to be entirely incorrect. See monograph by F. Gabotto and Badini-Gonfalonieri (1894) with bibliography; for the See also:quarrel with Politian'see also C. Meiners Lebensbeschreibungen der beruhmten Manner (1796), ii. 158.

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