Muret, Marc-Antoine (Marc-Antoine Muretus) (1526-85). French scholar and teacher who taught Jodelle in Paris and Montaigne in Bordeaux. He is the author of Latin poems (Juvenilia, 1552), including a play, Julius Caesar, one of the first plays written in France on a classical subject and a good example of formulary rhetoric, and he published annotations, mainly mythological and intertextual, to the second edition of Ronsard's Amours (1553) and many editions of the classics. He left for Italy accused of sodomy and taught law and philosophy in Venice and then Rome. He was ordained a priest and published Hymnorum sacrorum liber (1576) and Ciceronian speeches on academic and political occasions.
[Peter Sharratt]
