292 JEROME CARDAN. 



The gentle breeze came to him from the expected quarter, 

 from the friendship of the leading cardinals. After eighty- 

 six days of imprisonment within his own doors he was 

 set at liberty ; but he was forbidden to publish any more 

 books, and as a point of courtesy advised by his friends 

 voluntarily to resign his chair. He did so; and they 

 having then obtained for him a pension from the pope, 

 the famous philosopher, seventy years old, left Bologna 

 in September, and during the first week of March, in the 

 year 1571, entered Rome/ A victory over the Turks was 

 on that day in course of celebration. 



