Isaac Casaubon, 15591614 by Mark Pattison - 9781108034876

Isaac Casaubon, 15591614Author(s): Mark Pattison\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108034876, 978-1108034876\nSynopsis\nThe Victorian intellectual Mark Pattison [tel] published Isaac Casaubon in 1875, while rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Casaubon [tel], a French Protestant and distinguished Renaissance scholar, was the author of critical texts and commentaries on a vast corpus of classical authors, including Diogenes Laertius, Theocritus, Aristotle and Strabo. His magnum opus was his text and commentary on Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae. Pattison's account is based on letters, diaries, unpublished lecture notes and students' notes, published works, city archives, and university documents. The work covers Casaubon's youth, education, scholarly career, and final years spent in England [tel], where he influenced the rising 'Anglican school'. In his image of Casaubon, Pattison paints the picture of.