164 JEROME CARDAN. 



at Gallarate, but at the age of twenty-five obtained the 

 chair of Rhetoric at Pavia, and from that time remained 

 for forty years, through all its trials and its struggles, 

 true as a lover to his university. He became popular, 

 and was invited to Bologna and to Pisa, but no prospect 

 of greater gain could tempt him from his post. From 

 the chair of Rhetoric in Pavia he passed to the chair of 

 Logic, and when a vacancy occurred, his faithfulness was 

 rewarded with the senior chair of medicine. He was a 

 very learned physician, versed not only in polite letters 

 and history, in Greek and Hebrew, but also a deep 

 theologian. With him Jerome became more intimate in 

 later years 1 . Among other friends, Jerome names also 

 Melchior, a Milanese physician, and one Thomas Iseus, 

 towards whom he maintained always a great good-will, 

 though it was met with an unsparing enmity. 



Cardan was rarely without one or two youths under 

 his care. In Milan, after his return, he had three pupils 

 in succession Fabrizio Bozio, who became a soldier; 

 Giuseppe Amati, who became a political functionary ; and 

 Cristofero Sacco, who became a notary public. His old 

 pupil and relative, Gaspar Cardan, had commenced prac- 

 tice in Rome 2 . His elder son, Gianbatista, having with 



1 The preceding names of friends are from the fifteenth chapter De 

 Vita Propria. 



2 De Vita Propria, cap. xxxv. 



