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In Milan, the most eminent among the doctors naturally 

 became his physician, and, indeed, after he had gone to 

 Pavia, Jerome was summoned back to prescribe for this 

 duke, on which occasion he received as his fee a hundred 

 gold crowns and a piece of silk. 



Another of Jerome's friends, his first Milanese patron, 

 Fillippo Archinto, who had finally become Archbishop of 

 Milan, died in June, 1558, after two years of absence from 

 the see. His place was taken for a time by Ippolito II. 

 d'Este. On the 18th of August in the same year Pope 

 Paul IV. died dropsical, and was succeeded by the Cardi- 

 nal de' Medici, who took the name of Pius IV. This 

 pope was a Milanese, and very kind to his own town and 

 to his townsmen. It happened also that the Churchmen 

 who had most influence with him were Cardan's friends, 

 Morone and Borromeo, the last a young man of immense 

 wealth and influence, moreover nephew to his holiness. 

 At the end of the year 1560, Cardinal Ippolito resigning, 

 Borromeo was appointed Archbishop of Milan, but he did 

 not repair directly to his see; he remained at Rome, 

 acting as secretary of state to his uncle, and it was not 

 until the 23rd of September, 1565, that at the age of 

 twenty-six he celebrated the assumption of his episcopal 

 functions at Milan with a pompous entry. Carlo Borromeo 

 was not only an archbishop, but, by his munificence and 

 other good qualities, attained also permanent rank in the 



