353.)     To  some  editions  is  likewise  appended  a  tract  entitled  "  Vita  et
Parentes  Gasp.  Schoppii,  a  Germano  quodam  contubernali  ejus  conscrip-
ta"     This  German   was  perhaps   Eilhardus  Lubinus;  who  appears  to
have  written  some  tract  in  disparagement  of  Scioppius.     (Hid.  p.  725  )
Scioppius  afterwards  published  a  work  which  he  pretended  had  long  been
suppressed  by  the  artifices  of  the  Calvinists.     It  bears  the  title  of  "  Op-
orini  Grubini   -imphotides  Scioppianx ;  hoc  est  Responsio  ad  Satyram
Menippxam  Josephi  Burdonis  Pseudc- Scaligeri  pro  Vita  et  Moribus  Gasp.
Scioppii."    Paris.  1611,  6re.     It  seems  to  have  been  printed  in  Ger-
many.
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to  undermine  the  credit  of  the  younger  Scaliger's
hyperbolical  and  romantic  narrations ;  nor  can
the  answer  which  he  returned  to  Scioppius  be
deemed  satisfactory  with  respect  to  any  of  the
material  points  of  debate.  It  is  not  true  that  his
father  was  born  in  the  castle  of  Ripa ;  he  was
born  in  the  city  of  Verona.5  If  he  was  actually
knighted  by  the  emperor,  it  is  certainly  an  ex-
traordinary circumstance  that  he  should  never
have  assumed  so  honourable  a  distinction.  It  is
apparently  false  that  his  original  appellation  was
either  Julius  Caesar  Scaliger  of  Burden,  or  count
of  Burden.1  To  accuse  these  very  learned  men
of  downright  falsehood,  may  perhaps  appear  ex-

5  Bayle,  in  his  short  account  of  Verona,  has  published  the  letters  of
naturalization  which  Scaliger  obtained  from  Francis  the  first ;  and  he  is
there  denominated  "  natif  de  la  -ville  de  Veronne  en  Itallie."  In  those  let-
ters, his  name  and  addition  were  unquestionably  recited  from  his  own
memorial  or  petition.
