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emperor. Charles liked him, and sent Stampa back alone, 

 retaining Cardan's patron in the character of secretary 1 . 



It will be convenient here, in a few words, to tell the 

 fortune of Archinto. In the next year, 1536, he was 

 created a Count Palatine; afterwards, when he was sent to 

 Rome on imperial business with Paul III, the Pope, who 

 thought him a man worth acquiring for the Church, per- 

 suaded him to consult his interests by taking holy orders. 

 He did so, and was promptly appointed Apostolic Proto- 

 notary and Governor of Rome. In 1539 he was ordained 

 Bishop of Borgo San Sepolcro; in 1546 he was transferred 

 to Saluzzo ; and after having served as vicar to four Popes, 

 came back to his own town as Archbishop of Milan, in 

 1556. Two years afterwards he died, and being dead, his 

 life was written by Joannes Petrus Glussianus in two books. 



Archinto then, in the year 1535, being about to leave 

 Milan with Massimiliano Stampa, soon after the close of the 

 academic session, Jerome employed his vacation very busily 

 in writing certain treatises, which Archinto promised to 

 take for him, and commend, as well as he was able, to the 

 favourable notice of the Pope 2 . Cardan had heard of the 



1 Joseph! Ripamontii Canon. Scalens. Chronistae Urbis Mediolani, 

 Historic Patriae, Libri x. Med. 1641, p. 698. In the succeeding pages 

 is a full account of the manner in which Archinto passed into the ser- 

 vice of the Church, and of his subsequent career. His success, says 

 Ripamontius, was so great, that " ad consilia negotiaque omnia adhi- 

 bebatur, et gravissimi cujusque consilii author ipse erat." Ibid. p. 704. 



2 De Sapientia, &c. p. 425. The same authority will cover the re- 

 mainder of the paragraph. 



