De Causis Linguae Latinae (Lyon, 1540) / Des causes de la langue latine. Jules-César Scaliger,. Ed. and trans. Pierre Lardet, Geneviève Clerico, and Bernard Colombat,. 2 vols. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 594. Geneva: Droz, 2018. 2,222 pp. $222

First published in Lyon in 1540, the irascible Julius Caesar Scaliger's De Causis Linguae Latinae has remained one of his less studied works. Grammar, in his understanding, is neither an art nor some kind of empirical knowledge, but a science, and Scaliger's De Causis is, accordingly, not...

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