PRIOR GADDI. 129 



CHAPTER VIII. 



LIFE AS A LECTURER IN MILAN HOW JEROME AT LENGTH FOUND A 

 MAN WILLING TO PRINT ONE OF HIS BOOKS THE ISSUE OF THAT 

 ENTERPRISE. 



ARCHINTO, again, was perhaps the friend who ob- 

 tained for Jerome the appointment of physician to the 

 body of Augustin Friars; not a lucrative post, since the 

 receipts from it are included among the other trifles 

 which, together with the post of lecturer under the Plat 

 endowment, made up an income of not more than fifty 

 crowns 1 . Although denied authority to practise by the 

 local college of physicians, Cardan was not the less 

 Doctor of Medicine by right of his degree, and did not 

 scruple to exercise his profession whenever he found any 

 patient willing to consult him. The prior of the Augus- 

 tines, Francisco Gaddi 2 , a shrewd, severe man, whose 

 influence over the members of his order made him an 



1 De Libris Propriis. Lib. ult. Opera, Tom. i. p. 100. 



2 De Libr. Prop, (ed, 1557) p. 123. De Vit. Propr. cap. xl. p. 193. 



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