Muretus's the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret (April 12, 1526 – Rome, June 4, 1585), a French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and's among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance. Biography He was born at Muret near Limoges. At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the elder Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal college at Auch. He afterwards taught Latin at Villeneuve, and then at the Colle… (More on Muretus)