Editing Marcus Antonius Muretus (section)

==Biography==
He was born at [[Muret]] near [[Limoges]]. At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the [[Julius Caesar Scaliger|elder Scaliger]], and was invited to lecture in the [[Archbishop|archiepiscopal]] college at [[Auch]]. He afterwards taught Latin at [[Villeneuve-sur-Lot|Villeneuve]], and then at the [[College of Guienne]], [[Bordeaux]],{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} where his Latin tragedy ''Julius Caesar'' was presented. Some time before 1552 he delivered a course of lectures in the [[Collège du Cardinal Lemoine]] at [[Paris, France|Paris]], which drew a large audience, [[Henry II of France|King Henry II]] and his queen being among his hearers.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} In Paris he formed part of the larger circle of humanists and poets that included [[Jean Dorat]] and [[Pierre de Ronsard]].<ref> He published a commentary, in French, on Ronsard's ''Amours'', 1553.</ref> He wrote almost exclusively in Latin: [[epigram]]s, [[ode]]s, [[satire]]s and letters, which were widely circulated before they were printed. His orations remained models for students through the eighteenth century.<ref>''Orationes, et epistolae...ad usum scolarum selectae....'' Venetiis: Apud Josephum Orlandelli, 1791, for example. The collection had been republished repeatedly since 1739 [http://www.prbm.com/interest/i.htm?classics-lu-q.shtml~main] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315190402/http://www.prbm.com/interest/i.htm?classics-lu-q.shtml~main |date=2006-03-15 }}</ref>

His success made him many enemies, and he was thrown into prison on a charge of [[homosexuality]], but released by the intervention of powerful friends. The same accusation was brought against him at [[Toulouse]], and he only saved his life by timely flight. The records of the town show that he was burned in effigy as a [[Huguenot]] and as [[sodomy|sodomite]] (1554).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

After a wandering and insecure life of some years in [[Italy]], he received and accepted the invitation of the Cardinal [[Ippolito II d'Este]] to settle in Rome in 1559. In 1561 Muretus revisited France as a member of the cardinal's suite at the conference between [[Roman Catholics]] and [[Protestants]] held at [[Poissy]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He returned to Rome in 1563. His lectures gained him a European reputation, and in 1578 he received a tempting offer from the king of Poland to become teacher of jurisprudence in his new college at [[Kraków]]. Muretus, however, who about 1576 had taken holy orders, was induced by the liberality of [[Pope Gregory XIII|Gregory XIII]] to remain in Rome, where he died.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Muretus edited a number of classical authors with learned and scholarly notes. His other works include ''Juvenilia et poemata varia'', ''orationes'' and ''epistolae''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}