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Luc Holste

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Latin:
Lucas Holstenius
Born:
Sept. 27, 1596, Hamburg
Died:
Feb. 2, 1661, Rome (aged 64)
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Luc Holste (born Sept. 27, 1596, Hamburg—died Feb. 2, 1661, Rome) was a classical scholar and Vatican librarian best known for his annotated editions of geographical works and whose Epistolae ad diversos (1817; “Letters to Various Persons”) is a valuable source of information on the literary history of his time. Holste travelled in Italy and Sicily (1617–18) with Philipp Clüver, a geographer, collecting materials for Clüver’s Italia antiqua (1624; “Ancient Italy”). Holste’s notes on this work appeared in 1666. He went to Rome as librarian to Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1627) and in 1629 received a Vatican post. His edition (1630) ...(100 of 190 words)

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