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printed works, but caused him to establish and maintain, 

 by correspondence, friendship with many people whom 

 he never saw. His recent tour had added to the number 

 of his friends, and there were others with whom he was 

 in his best days personally very intimate. Among these 

 were two brother physicians, Montagnano Cavallo and 

 Aurelio Stanno. There was also a Milanese patrician, 

 Francisco Vimercati, skilled in philosophy, who acknow- 

 ledged himself a disciple of Cardan. He had been called 

 by Francis I. to Paris, and there made professor of philo- 

 sophy; afterwards he was summoned to Turin by the 

 Duke of Savoy. Vimercati was a good Greek scholar, 

 and was the best interpreter of Aristotle in his own gene- 

 ration. Another of Jerome's friends was Boniface Rho- 

 diginus, jurisconsult and astrologer, related probably to 

 the great Ccelius Rhodiginus, who had taught at Milan? 

 and had ranked the elder Scaliger among his pupils. 

 The friendship felt for Cardan by his fellow-professor, 

 Alciati the jurist, was maintained by his heir, Alciati the 

 cardinal. Cardinal Alciati had power to become another 

 strong supporter of the great physician's fortunes, and he 

 thus again acquired a patron in the Church. 



To this list of friends we must not delay to add the 

 name of Gianpietro Albuzio, who might have been named 

 in a former chapter as fellow-professor with Cardan at 

 Pavia. Albuzio had, like Jerome, struggled a little while 



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