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dialogue itself was meant to be the literary monument on 

 which Jerome would inscribe for the instruction of all 

 ages, the youth's name and the grief of the philosopher 

 by whom he was so much loved and so much neglected. 

 The essential part of the youth's name, however, ob- 

 scured by translation into Latin, and further perplexed 

 by a misprint, it is hard now to determine. I suppose it 

 to have been Latombe 1 . 



Beset by miseries, and shrinking at Pa via from the 

 face of men who had known his son and did not share a 

 father's pity for his fate. Cardan sought relief in change of 

 scene. He desired a removal from among the people who 

 had seen his house degraded. He had been known always 

 to the Borromeo family, and the young cardinal, who 

 was so great and truly excellent a man, had grown up 

 in good-will towards him. His mother, indeed, Mar- 

 garet de' Medici, the first of his father's three wives, 

 had once been indebted to the skill of the physician for 

 her life. It has been said that Carlo Borromeo was 

 at Rome, but his activity was felt in other places. He 



1 In Hasted's Kent the only family names that seem likely to have been 

 transformed into Lataneus, are Latombe and Latham. The Lathams 

 mentioned are clergymen in out-of-the way places; but Thomas and 

 Jane de Latombe are said to have held early in the next century 

 Brambery Manor, ten miles from Dover. William's family was good, 

 and of foreign origin. I suggest the name for want of a better. It 

 may be possible to ascertain whether Philip and Mary ever were 

 lodged in Kent by a Latombe, and if not, by what other family whose 

 name might be rudely Latinised into Lataneus. 



