Joseph Justus Scaliger (Dictionary of World Biography: The Renaissance)
Early Life
In 1525, the physician Julius Caesar Scaliger accompanied the Italian nobleman M. A. de la Rovère to Agen, a small town in western France, where the nobleman would serve as bishop. The physician claimed a remarkable record. Julius Caesar Scaliger was descended from the family (the della Scala) that once had ruled Verona. He had studied art (with Albrecht Dürer), medicine, theology, natural history, and classical literature. He had earned military distinction during seventeen years of service under his kinsman the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. Now the physician...
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