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in maintaining correspondence and good-will with learned 

 men in all countries, hospitable though his means were 

 small to every scholar that came into Zurich. Prompt 

 to serve all, he was an editor of other men's volumes, a 

 writer of prefaces for friends, a suggester to young writers 

 of books on which they might engage themselves, and a 

 great helper to them in the progress of their work. But 

 still, while finding time for services to other men, he 

 could produce as much out of his own study as though 

 he had no part in the life beyond its walls. Cardan 

 therefore records, as we might have expected, that on his 

 way through Zurich he was Gesner's guest. 



So then travelling on into Italy and there sailing across 

 the Lake of Como, Jerome re-entered Milan on the 3rd 

 of January, 1553, after an absence of three hundred and 

 ten days. How different that entry from the former one, 

 when he and Lucia came in from Gallarate paupers! 

 He had been called, for the sake of his skill, to a remote 

 part of Europe. He had been sought by the emperor 

 himself, by the King of France, and for the Queen of 

 Scotland. He had been honoured by the King of Eng- 

 land. The foremost men for rank and learning in many 

 foreign countries had been eager to obtain his aid as a 

 physician, or his personal acquaintance as a friend. He 

 came back into Milan loaded with honours and rewards 

 to take his undisputed place as chief physician in the city 



