Buchanan, George (1506–82) Poet, humanist scholar, and historian,
born near Killearn in Stirlingshire; he studied at St Andrews and Paris, and became tutor to a natural son of James V. He satirized the Franciscans in several Latin poems, was condemned for heresy and imprisoned at St Andrews. Escaping to the Continent, he became a professor at Bordeaux, where he wrote four Latin plays (... ...
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