246 JEROME CAKDAN. 



through the rule, physicians commented, if they had any 

 anatomy to teach. The anatomist, instead of writing a 

 new work of his own, edited Mundinus. Cardan admired 

 Vesalius, as we have seen ; but he considered him to have 

 erred in certain respects, which he named. The object of 

 his comment on Mundinus was to discuss some philo- 

 sophical points of anatomy that had been much neglected, 

 bearing particularly on the connexion and use of parts, 

 and on the application of anatomy to the diagnosis and 

 cure of disease 1 . He wrote also, soon after his son's death, 

 a philosophical dialogue, entitled Tetim, in which he 

 dwelt mournfully upon his sorrows; and, among other 

 things, said that he had lived happily under Ferrante 

 Gonzaga, who was a harsh man, while tinder the inild 

 rule of a liberal successor he had lost his son 2 . 



Considering the execution of his son to have been a 

 crime on the part of all concerned in it, he watched the 

 fates of those who had afflicted him ; and noted afterwards 3 

 that the President Rigone lived to expel his own wife 

 from his house without any provision, and to lose his only 

 son. Only a few days after Gianbatista's execution, his 

 harsh prosecutor, Evangelista Seroni, had been put 

 into chains ; and losing some small office, of which he had 

 endeavoured to enlarge the profits by extortion, he became 



1 See the preface to Mundinus. Opera, Tom. x. p. 129. 



2 Dial. Tetim. Opera, Tom. i. p. 671. 



3 De Vita Propria, cap. xlii. De Varietate Eerum, Lib. xvi. cap. 93. 



