Editing Joseph Justus Scaliger (section)

==Sources==
One notable biography of Joseph Scaliger is that of [[Jakob Bernays]] (Berlin, 1855). It was reviewed by Pattison in the ''Quarterly Review'', vol. cviii (1860), since reprinted in the ''Essays'', i (1889), 132–195. Pattison had made many manuscript collections for the life of Joseph Scaliger on a much more extensive scale, which he left unfinished. In writing the above article, [[Richard Copley Christie]] had access to and made much use of these manuscripts, which include the life of Julius Caesar Scaliger. The fragments of the life of Joseph Scaliger have been printed in the ''Essays'', i. 196–245. For the life of Joseph, besides the letters published by Tamizis de Larroque (Agen, 1881), the two old collections of Latin and French letters and the two ''Scaligerana'' are the most important sources of information.{{sfn|Christie|Sandys|1911|p=285}} The complete correspondence of Scaliger is now available in eight volumes.<ref>''The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger'', 8 vol. ; ed. by Paul Botley and Dirk van Miert. Supervisory editors [[Anthony Grafton]], Henk Jan De Jonge and Jill Kraye. Genève : Droz, 2012. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance ; 507). {{ISBN|978-2600-01638-4}}.</ref>
	
For the life of his father Julius Caesar Scaliger, the letters edited by his son, those subsequently published in 1620 by the President de Maussac, the ''Scaligerana'', and his own writings are full of autobiographical matter, are the chief authorities. Jules de Bourousse de Laffore's ''Etude sur Jules César de Lescale'' (Agen, 1860) and Adolphe Magen's ''Documents sur Julius Caesar Scaliger et sa famille'' (Agen, 1873) add important details to the lives of both father and son. The lives by [[Charles Nisard]] – that of ''Julius et Les Gladiateurs de la république des lettres'', and that of Joseph ''Le Triumvirat littéraire au seizième siècle'' – are equally unworthy of their author and their subjects. Julius is simply held up to ridicule, while the life of Joseph is almost wholly based on the book of [[Scioppius]] and the ''Scaligerana''.{{sfn|Christie|Sandys|1911|p=285}}[[File:Scaliger, Joseph Juste – Iosephi Scaligeri Elenchus et Castigatio calendarij Gregoriani, 1595 – BEIC 4686619.jpg|thumb|''Elenchus et Castigatio calendarij Gregoriani, 1595'']]A complete list of the works of Joseph will be found in his life by Jakob Bernays. See also [[John Edwin Sandys|J. E. Sandys]], ''History of Classical Scholarship'', ii. (1908), 199–204.{{sfn|Christie|Sandys|1911|pp=285–286}} A technical biography is [[Anthony T. Grafton]], ''Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship'', 2 vol. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983, 1993).{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}