Scaliger, a Humanist of the First Half of the 16th Century

Julius caesar scalige was one of the most famous humanists of the first half of the sixteenth century. He spent his early career engaged in more literal warfare as a soldier in the imperial army. After almost being killed in battle, he retired from military life to devote himself to humanist scholarship. Scliger's pugnacity and fascination with language stayed with him. A work from 15 forty, addressed to his son, is tellingly entitled on the causes of the latin language. I say tellingly because scaliger's project here is to present latin grammar as a proper science. And a fundamental tenet of arisitonian epistemology is that