DEATH OF FAZIO. 51 



day, the 1st of November 1 , when the learned Paduans 

 opened the academic year with great solemnity and pomp. 

 Soon after his return, Jerome received news of his 

 father's death. Fazio died of old age, after eight days of 

 abstinence from food, upon a Sabbath-day, the 28th of 

 August 3 . His son, who was warm-hearted, had loved 

 him ; but there is more of literary vanity than filial love 

 in the epitaph, of course a Latin one, with which he 

 marked his grave. Thus the sense of the inscription ran : 



To FAZIO CARDAN, 



JURISCONSULT. 

 DEATH IT WAS THAT I LIVED, LIFE IT WAS DEATH THAT GAVE, 



THERE REMAINS THE MIND ETERNAL, CERTAIN GLORY, REST 3 . 

 He died in the year 1524, Oct. 28, in the eightieth year of his age. 

 JEROME CARDAN, PHYSICIAN, TO HIS PARENT 

 AND POSTERITY. 



1 See J. P. Tomasini Commentar. de Gymn. Patavin. Lib. i. pp. 

 150 4, for the complete University Calendar, formerly regulating 

 work-days and holidays at Padua, 



2 De Vit. Propr. p. 17. Dialogus Tetim. Opera, Tom. i. p. 672. 

 " Tetim. At Pater, quomodo obiit ? Ram. Honeste, et ex senio." 



3 These two motto lines are in the original a bad hexameter and a 

 pentameter; the whole inscription being: 



" Facio Cardano, 



I.C. 

 Mors fuit id, quod vixi, vitam mors dedit ipsa, 



Mens seterna manet, gloria tuta, quies. 



Obiit anno M.D.XXIV. iv. Kal. Sept. Anno JStatis Ixxx. 



Hyeronymus Cardanus, Medicus, Parenti 



Posterisque." 



The inscription is given by Tomasini (Elog. part i. Patav. 1630) 

 from the church of St. Mark, in Milan. Jerome himself was eventually 

 buried under it beside his father, as is testified by Tomasini and 

 Thuanus. 



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