About Louis Carrion
Lived 1547 – 1595 (aged 47–48). Louis Carrion was a philologist, jurist and classical scholar.
Louis Carrion (Ludovicus Carrio) (1547 – 23 June 1595) was a Flemish humanist and classical scholar. He is known for his precocious edition of the Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus, from 1565/6. This was printed from a manuscript now referred to as the Codex Carrionis, or C; which was later lost. Carrion's scholarship has regularly been challenged, ever since.
He is known too for commentary on Sallust (1574), and work on Tertullian, the astrologer Censorinus (1583), and Aulus Gellius (1585, with Henry Estienne). He also published letters of Ogier de Busbecq.
Works In Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libros octo castigationes (Antwerp, Plantinus, 1566) Antiquarum lectionum commentarii III. In quibus varia scriptorum veterum loca supplentur, corriguntur et illustrantur
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Who was Louis Carrion?
Flamish philologist and jurist
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Louis Carrion was born in 1547 in Bruges.
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Louis Carrion died on 23 June 1595 in Leuven.
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Louis Carrion was a philologist, jurist and classical scholar.
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