DESIRE FOR A REMOVAL TO BOLOGNA. 255 



on the friendship of the cardinals, Jerome at once con- 

 sulted his own feelings, and endeavoured to throw up his 

 appointment in the University of Pavia. The senate de- 

 layed for some time the acceptance of his resignation. 

 He had then no other appointment offered him, and they 

 seem to have supposed that he was acting rashly on the 

 spur of his unhappiness, and that it would be most 

 proper to interpose delays, and force upon him that time 

 for mature deliberation which, in the disorder of his mind, 

 he seemed to be unwilling or indisposed to take. 



It was then that the afflicted old man was exposed to 

 town scandal and insults, which he begins in this way to 

 record 1 : " I was professor at Pavia, and reading in my 

 house. I had a nurse and the youth Ercole Visconti, and 

 two boys, and a famulus, as I believe. Of these boys, 

 one was an amanuensis and musician, the other a page. 

 It was the year 1562, in which I had made up my mind 

 to leave Pavia, and resign my professorship ; but the 

 Senate took that ill, and as if I decided angrily. Then 

 there were doctors, one, a hot man, who had once been 

 my pupil, the other Extraordinary Professor of Medicine, 



a simple man, having, I think, no harm in him 



My rivals were most anxious that I should leave the city, 

 doing all they could, as it seemed, to bring about their 



1 De "Vita Propria, cap. xxx. 



