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  • List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Vita Brevis; 2. Scaliger's Significance; 3. Premature Universal History: The French Origins of Scaliger's Method; 4. Everything a Target: History as Master Discipline; 5. Scaligerian History as Master Discipline: Consequences for the Leiden Circle; 1. Vita Brevis; 2Virtuous Poverty of Reason: The Bucolic Heinsius (1603-4); 3. Dwelling on the Pagan-Christian Borders: Heinsius and Cunaeus on Nonnus (1610); 4. Enter Secularisation: On The Constitution of Tragedy (1611); 5. On the Superiority and Dignity of History (1613).