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into a street called Del Maino, opposite the citadel, where 

 they were in the house of Lazzaro Soncino 1 , a physician. 

 A physician was a very fitting landlord for the boy, at 

 any rate ; and it may possibly have been to the representa- 

 tions of Lazzaro Soncino that the child was indebted for 

 the resolve taken by his friends that he was to be flogged 

 no longer. Very soon after this resolve was taken, a great 

 change took place in the arrangements that existed among 

 the high powers that presided over the boy's worldly 

 destiny. Clara Micheria, with Margaret, her sister, 

 removed to a lodging in the Via dei Rovelli, which 

 they shared with Fazio Cardan 2 . Some semblance of a 

 home, as childhood is accustomed to interpret home, was 

 now, for the first time, placed within the knowledge of 

 the young pupil of sorrow. Father and mother dwelt 

 under one roof with him ; the home meant little more. 

 It was no place of laughter, or caresses, or of childish 

 sport. Fazio needed an attendant who should walk about 

 with him while he was engaged upon his daily business, 

 carrying his books and papers, or whatever else the 

 learned lawyer needed to take with him when he went 

 abroad. To this work the work of a servant Clara's 

 child was put without delay 3 . Margaret and Clara being 



1 De Propr. Vit. cap. xxiv. p. 92. 



2 De Propr. Vit. p. 13, comp. with p. 92. 



3 " Inde" (ab octavo) " loco servi patrem ad decimum nonum annum 

 perpetuo comitabar." De Consolatione (ed. Ven. 1542), Lib. iii. p, 74. 



