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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 34 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MURETUS , the Latinized name of MARC See also:

ANTOINE MURET (1526–1585), See also:French humanist, who was See also:born at Muret near See also:Limoges on the 12th of See also:April 1526. At the See also:age of eighteen he attracted the See also:notice of the See also:elder See also:Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal See also:college at See also:Auch. He afterwards taught Latin at See also:Villeneuve, and then at See also:Bordeaux. Some See also:time before 1552 he delivered a course of lectures in the college of See also:Cardinal Lemoine at See also:Paris, which was largely attended, See also:Henry II. and his See also:queen being among his hearers. His success made him many enemies, and he was thrown into See also:prison on a disgraceful See also:charge, but released by the intervention of powerful See also:friends. The same See also:accusation was brought against him at See also:Toulouse, and he only saved his See also:life by timely See also:flight. The records of the See also:town show that he was burned in effigy as a Huguenot and as shame-fully immoral (1554). After a wandering and insecure life ofsome years in See also:Italy, he received and accepted the invitation of the Cardinal Ippolyte d'See also:Este to See also:settle in See also:Rome in 1559. In 1561 he revisited See also:France as a member of the cardinal's See also:suite at the See also:conference between See also:Roman Catholics and Protestants held at See also:Poissy. He returned to Rome in 1563. His lectures gained him a See also:European reputation, and in 1578 he received a tempting offer from the See also:king of See also:Poland to become teacher of See also:jurisprudence in his new college at See also:Cracow. Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken See also:holy orders, was induced by the liberality of See also:Gregory XIII. to remain in Rome, where he died on the 4th of See also:June 1585.

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Complete See also:editions of his See also:works: editio princeps, See also:Verona (1727–1730); by D. Ruhnken (1789), by C. H. Frotscher (1834–1841); two volumes of Scripta selecta, by J. See also:Frey (1871); Variae lectiones, by F. A. See also:Wolf and J. H. Fasi (1791–1828). Muretus edited a number of classical authors with learned and scholarly notes. His other works include Juvenilia et poemata See also:varia, orationes and epistolae. See monograph by C.

Dejob (Paris, 1881); J. E. See also:

Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol., (2nd ed., 1908), ii. 148–152.

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