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sharing his cares, miscarried at the third or fourth month, 

 and again a second time miscarried 1 . No bread was to be 

 earned at Milan. After a vain struggle, the newly- 

 married pair determined to go out again into the world. 



The anxious question of the choice of a new spot to 

 which they might transfer their struggle with some hope 

 of a good issue was decided by a series of arguments in 

 favour of Gallarate 2 . That is a small town twenty-four 

 miles distant to the north-west from Milan ; it does not at 

 this day quite contain four thousand inhabitants. Jerome 

 and Lucia went sick and weary out of the inhospitable 

 capital, and settled in the country town of Gallarate when 

 the trees were bursting into leaf 3 . They would gain, they 

 said, pure air, and that was good for both of them. They 

 would be able to subsist more cheaply, for the country 

 prices differed greatly from the charges set upon provi- 

 sions in the town, and there were even a few eatable 

 things to be had for nothing. Cardan would be at liberty 

 to practise there unhindered, for he would be beyond the 

 jurisdiction of the hostile college, and he would be im- 

 peded by no rivals. Finally, there was one consideration 

 above others which had indeed suggested Gallarate as the 



1 De Libris Propriis. Lib. ult. Opera, Tom. i. p. 98. 



2 These will be found, with other details here cited, in the section 

 de Paupertate of the book de Utilitate ex Adversis Capienda, pp. 439, 

 440. The supposed connexion with the Castellione family is there ex- 

 plained very minutely. 



3 " Circa Aprilis finem," De Vita Propr. p. 19. 



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