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nately could prompt and aid very substantially any king- 

 in quarrel with his neighbours. At the same time, he 

 could give still more important aid in the establishment 

 of a sound system of home polity, if any king then reign- 

 ing should desire so much. Francesco Sforza, Duke of 

 Milan, knowing these things, used his power over Alciat 

 as territorial lord, and commanded him, on pain of for- 

 feiting his patrimony and all property belonging to him 

 in the Milanese, to leave the King of France, and teach 

 again at Pavia. He was not to receive less there than 

 was paid to him at Bourges. The lawyer went again, 

 therefore, to Pavia. 



Disturbed in his teaching by the wars, he removed, 

 in 1537, from Pavia to Bologna. Home troubles abating, 

 and the duchy of Milan having been bequeathed to Charles 

 V, Charles "also used his influence, as Duke of Milan, in 

 compelling Alciat to teach at Pavia, with a salary of one 

 thousand two hundred ducats. Renewed disturbances im- 

 poverished that university, and the purchasable jurist was 

 enticed to Ferrara by Duke Hercules II, with the promise 

 of thirteen hundred and fifty ducats yearly. In 1547 he 

 was again fetched back to Pavia, where Cardan also, 

 recently a widower, was lecturing ; there finally Alciat 

 lived and lectured maintaining at the same time another 

 house at Milan until he died, in 1550, fifty-eight years 

 old, and to the last unmarried. Jerome had been fore- 

 warned of his friend's death in a dream. 



