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Arnoldus Arlenius Peraxylus, (c. 1510 – 1582), born Arndt or Arnout van Eyndhouts or van Eynthouts, also known as Arnoud de Lens, was a
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philosopher and poet. He was born in Aarle, near
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, (although some accounts say
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),
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, in the
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, at that time part of the possessions of the
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. He studied under
Macropedius Georgius Macropedius (born Joris van Lanckvelt; April 1487 – July 1558) was a Dutch humanist, schoolmaster and "the greatest Latin playwright of the 16th century." Biography Macropedius was born as Joris van Lanckvelt in Gemert (Northern Braba ...
and later travelled to
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, and Ferrara and studied at the
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for five years, becoming a first-rate Greek scholar and supporting himself by bookselling and acting as a scout for the printers of Basel, arranging the publication of books such as Caelius Rhodiginus's ''Lectiones antiquae''. In 1542 he travelled to
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, where he became librarian to the
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ambassador, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, finding new texts and organising the transcription of documents, work which involved him in travelling to Frankfurt and Florence. He also catalogued Mendoza's collection of Greek manuscripts. Working with manuscripts found in Mendoza's substantial library, he produced in 1544 the first printed
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version of the works of
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. This was published by
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in
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, and for many years was the basis of all existing translations from the Greek. In addition, he was responsible for the publication of important early editions of
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(Basle, 1546) and
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's Latin translation of
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(Basle, 1549). His Greek-Latin Lexicon was published in Venice in 1546. He later worked as a corrector for the printer
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and obtained books and manuscripts for
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. In 1556 he was responsible for the publication in Basel of an edition of
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's works, based on the 1534 edition by the scholar
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, which he personally corrected with the assistance of manuscripts of Plato which he had collected in Italy. This edition is described by the classicist
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as "one of the most barbarously ligatured ever put into print."M. F. Burnyeat, 'Plato' (Master Mind Lecture), Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111, Oxford University Press 2001


Sources

* Charles Anthon, ''A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era'' (New York, 1853) * Anthony Hobson, ''Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings'': pp 72–74


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