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    Scala, whose members were known as Scaligeri (Italian: [skaˈliːdʒeri]) or Scaligers (/ˈskælɪdʒərz/; from the Latinized de Scalis), was the ruling family of...
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    Joseph Justus Scaliger (/ˈskælɪdʒər/; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding...
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    Julius Caesar Scaliger (/ˈskælɪdʒər/; 23 April 1484 – 21 October 1558), or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a...
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  • The noble family of the Scaliger, or Scaligeri, were Lords of Verona from the 13th to early 15th century. Scaliger may also refer to persons dubiously...
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    The Scaliger Tombs (Italian: Arche scaligere) is a group of five Gothic funerary monuments in Verona, Italy, celebrating the Scaliger family, who ruled...
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    Scaliger is a prominent lunar impact crater in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It is attached to the northwest rim of the walled plain...
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  • references say that the Julian in "Julian Period" refers to Scaliger's father, Julius Scaliger, at the beginning of Book V of his Opus de Emendatione Temporum...
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    The Castel Vecchio Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Castel Vecchio) or Scaliger Bridge (Italian: Ponte Scaligero) is a fortified bridge in Verona, northern Italy...
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    calculations, put the Julian Dating System (proposed in the year 1583 by Joseph Scaliger) and with it an astronomical era into use, which contains a leap year zero...
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    cross underneath, is commonly used to represent females. Joseph Justus Scaliger once speculated that the symbol was associated with Venus, goddess of beauty...
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    commoditas bibliothecae ut studiosi possint studere" —Josephus Justus Scaliger "The greatest advantage of the library is that those who want to study...
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    the sobriety of his life and his mandate as a fisher of souls. Scaliger tombs The Scaliger tombs, located to the side of the church of Santa Maria Antica...
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    monument to be built in his name, specifying that it be a replica of the Scaliger Tombs in Verona, Italy. The Grand Théâtre de Genève, opened in 1879, was...
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    the Visconti, the Este, and the Gonzaga. After a three years war, the Scaliger dominions were reduced to Verona and Vicenza (Mastino's daughter Regina-Beatrice...
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  • different ideas as to how the leap years went. The above scheme is that of Scaliger (1583) in the table below. He established that the Augustan reform was...
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    Paul Skalich (redirect from Paul Scaliger)
    is rendered in various other ways: e.g., in English, Skalich, Scalich, Scaliger; in Latin, Scalichius or Scaligius; and Spanish, Scalitzius. Skalić studied...
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    1000, Sirmione was probably a free comune, but fell into the hands of the Scaliger in the early 13th century. Mastino I della Scala was probably the founder...
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  • during one of the periodic plague outbreaks. Nostradamus meets up with Scaliger in Agen. Nostradamus prophesies the death of Henry II of France in a jousting...
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    northern Italy. It is the most important military construction of the Scaliger dynasty that ruled the city in the Middle Ages. The castle is powerful...
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    The Scaligero Castle is a fortress from the Scaliger era, access point to the historical centre of Sirmione, on Lake Garda. It's one of Italy's best preserved...
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    Comprehensive versions of author's works were published by Isaac Casaubon, Joseph Scaliger and others. Nevertheless, despite the careful work of Petrarch, Politian...
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  • to whom is attributed a paraphrase of Aesop's Fables, of which Julius Scaliger speaks with great praise.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
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  • seventeenth century humanist Joseph Justus Scaliger. However, misinterpreting Beda's reference, Scaliger applied the term episēmon not as a name proper...
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  • The short-tail alpine garter snake (Thamnophis scaliger) is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. It is found in Mexico. Canseco-Márquez, L.; Mendoza-Quijano...
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    Joseph Justus Scaliger by the Welsh epigrmmatist John Owen, in his popular Epigrammata, 1613 Lib. I. epigram 16 O Tempora! O Mores!: Scaliger annosi correxit...
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    was established and it soon subdued the eastern shore of the lake. The Scaliger built numerous defensive constructions, in particular, they built the castles...
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  • office, military power or a general subversion of the constitution. The Scaliger family in Verona converted their control of the office of podestà into...
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    economic losses to Venetian trade, so in 1336 Venice gave birth to the anti-Scaliger league. The following year the coalition expanded further and Padua returned...
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    and bars.[citation needed] The most imposing building of Lazise is the Scaliger Castle and the city wall that surrounds the historic centre. The castle...
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    embedded in the Augustan History, was accepted uncritically by Joseph Scaliger, who assumed the other sources were wrong, and followed by Edward Gibbon...
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