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

• ITALIAN

Italian humanist and classical See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ALESSANDRIA

Alessandria in See also:

• PIEDMONT (Ital. Piemonte; Low Lat. Pedemons and Pedemontium)

Piedmont . The greater See also:

• PART

part of his See also:

• LIFE

life was spent at See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice and See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, where he held a professorship and continued to See also:

• TEACH [THATCH OR THACH], EDWARD (d. 1718)

teach until his See also:

• DEATH

death . To Merula we are indebted for the editio princeps of See also:

• PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS (originally perhaps MACCUS; cf. Asin. Prol. 11)

Plautus (1472), of the Scriptores rei rusticae, See also:

• CATO, DIONYSIUS
• CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS (234—149 B.c.)
• CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS (95-46 B.c.)
• CATO, PUBLIUS VALERIUS

Cato, See also:

• VARRO, MARCUS TERENTIUS (116—27 B.C.)
• VARRO, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS

Varro, See also:

• COLUMELLA, LUCIUS JUNIUS MODERATUS

Columella, See also:

• PALLADIUS, RUTILIUS TAURUS AEMILIANUS

Palladius (1472) and possibly of See also:

• MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

Martial (1471) . He also published commentaries on portions of See also:

• CICERO

Cicero (especially the De finibus), on See also:

• AUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUS (c. 310-395)

Ausonius, See also:

• JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS) (c. 60-140)

Juvenal, See also:

• CURTIUS, ERNST (1814-1896)
• CURTIUS, MARCUS

Curtius See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

Rufus, and other classical authors . He wrote also Bellum scodrense (1474), on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of Scodra (See also:

• SCUTARI (anc. Scodra, Slay. Skadar, Albanian Shkoder, or with the definite article Shkedr-a)
• SCUTARI (Turkish, Uskudar, anc. Chrysopolis)

Scutari) by the See also:

• TURKS

Turks, and Antiquitates vicecomitum, the See also:

• HISTORY

history of the See also:

• VISCONTI

Visconti, See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

dukes of Milan, down to the death of Matteo the See also:

• GREAT

Great (1322) . He violently attacked See also:

• POLITIAN (1454–1494)

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

original, to be entirely incorrect . See monograph by F . Gabotto and Badini-Gonfalonieri (1894) with bibliography; for the See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with Politian'see also C . Meiners Lebensbeschreibungen der beruhmten Manner (1796), ii . 158 .