MURETUS  , the Latinized name of MARC

ANTOINE MURET (1526–1585), French humanist, who was born at Muret near Limoges on the 12th of April 1526 . 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 Bordeaux . Some time before 1552 he delivered a course of lectures in the college of Cardinal Lemoine at Paris, which was largely attended, Henry II. and his queen being among his hearers . His success made him many enemies, and he was thrown into prison on a disgraceful charge, 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 shame-fully immoral (1554) . After a wandering and insecure life ofsome years in Italy, he received and accepted the invitation of the Cardinal Ippolyte d'Este to settle in Rome in 1559 . In 1561 he 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 Cracow . Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken holy orders, was induced by the liberality of Gregory XIII. to remain in Rome, where he died on the 4th of June 1585 .

Complete editions of his works: editio princeps, Verona (1727–1730); by D . Ruhnken (1789), by C . H . Frotscher (1834–1841); two volumes of Scripta selecta, by J . Frey (1871); Variae lectiones, by F . A . 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 varia, orationes and epistolae . See monograph by C .

Dejob (Paris, 1881); J . E .

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