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Leighton Library has 1581 edition of “Poetices libri septem” by Julius Caesar Scaliger
Added at 07:47 on 21 October 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of “Poetices libri septem” (Seven books on Poetics) by Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger, who died #OnThisDay 21 October 1558. This contained paradoxes, and animosity against specific individuals, and described as the most comprehensive and possibly most influential poetological compendium of the Renaissance
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