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BOOK LAUNCH - The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger, 8 vols, Geneva (Droz) 2012
The surviving correspondence of the formidable renaissance polymath Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) amounts to some 1700 letters, written between 1561 and 1609. The Scaliger Project was established at the Warburg Institute in 2004 by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton) to produce a critical edition of this important correspondence. Two editors, Dr Paul Botley (糖心TV) and Dr Dirk van Miert (Huygens Institute), were appointed to undertake the task. After more than seven years' work, the edition has now been published in eight volumes in Geneva by Droz. To mark this major landmark in Renaissance scholarship, the publishers Droz and the Cultures of Knowledge Project at Oxford are generously supporting the launch of the edition in the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library on Friday 21 September.
All those who would like to attend the launch are invited to visit the project website by Monday 17 September: