Muretus [SEP] date of death
Muretus
Muretus is the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret (12 April 1526 – 4 June 1585), a French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance.
Biography.
He was born at Muret near Limoges. 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 the College
"Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester" (approximate date of first performance)
- "Mucedorus" (approximate date of first performance)
- "The Troublesome Reign of King John" (perhaps by George Peele; published)
- John Lyly – "Endymion, the Man in the Moon" (published)
- Muretus – "Julius Caesar" (published)
- Robert Wilmot – "Tancred and Gismund" (published)
Drama Poetry.
- Sir John Harington – "Orlando