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Muretus is the
Latinized name of
Marc Antoine Muret (
April 12,
1526 - Rome,
June 4,
1585), a
French humanist who was among the revivers of a
Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the
Renaissance.
Biography
He was born at
Muret near
Limoges. At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the
elder Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal college at
Auch. He afterwards taught Latin at
Villeneuve, and then at the Collège de Guyenne,
Bordeaux, where his Latin tragedy
Julius Caesar was presented. Some time before
1552 he delivered a course of lectures in the
college of Cardinal Lemoine at
Paris, which drew a large audience,
King Henry II and his queen being among his hearers. In Paris he formed part of the larger circle of humanists and poets that included
Jean Dorat and
Pierre Ronsard. He wrote almost exclusively in Latin:
epigrams,
odes,
satires and letters, which were widely circulated before they were printed. His orations remained models for students through the eighteenth century.
His success made him many enemies, and he was thrown into prison on a charge of
homosexuality, but released by the intervention of powerful friends. The same accusation was brought against him at
Toulouse, and he only saved his life by timely flight. The records of the town show that he was burned in effigy as a
Huguenot and as
sodomite (1554).
After a wandering and insecure life of some years in
Italy, he received and accepted the invitation of the Cardinal
Ippolito II d'Este to settle in Rome in 1559. In 1561 Muret revisited France as a member of the cardinal's suite at the conference between
Roman Catholics and
Protestants held at
Poissy.
He returned to Rome in 1563. His lectures gained him a European reputation, and in 1578 he received a tempting offer from the king of Poland to become teacher of jurisprudence in his new college at
Kraków. Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken holy orders, was induced by the liberality of
Gregory XIII to remain in Rome, where he died.
Muretus edited a number of classical authors with learned and scholarly notes. His other works include
Juvenilia et poemata varia,
orationes and
epistolae.
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