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often frequented the house of his old master. Cardan 

 lived at first in the square of St. Girolamo, afterwards in 

 the Via Giulia, near the church of S. Maria di Monte 

 Santo 1 . He had also one pupil, his name was Ottavio 

 Pitio, and he was from Calabria 2 . 



Aldo Cardan was disinherited. The child Fazio lived 

 with his grandfather, and was his heir. The old physician's 

 property had been saved to him ; it included the possession 

 of a house or two at Milan, one at Pavia, another at 

 Bologna, and these, with whatever else he owned, although 

 they did not amount to much, and bore a very small pro- 

 portion to the earnings of his life, yet formed a patrimony 

 four times larger than the little that he had inherited from 

 Fazio his father 3 . To his grandson Fazio all this was left, 

 and to his heirs 4 . The whole property was to stand together, 

 and to be subject to regulations that were equivalent to an 

 entail. Young heirs, by the terms of his will, were to be 

 kept under guardianship as long as possible, ee for certain 

 reasons known to himself." Whatever manuscripts he left 

 behind him were to be corrected, and eventually sent to 

 press. Heirs belonging to his family who had not his 

 own name should take it on inheriting his property. 

 When succession failed, the house at Bologna was to 



1 De Vita Propria, cap. xxiv. 



2 Ibid. cap. xxxv. 



3 Dialogus cum Facio Cardano. Opera, Tom. i. p. 639. 



4 For the contents of Cardan's will see De Vita Propria, cap. xxxvi. 



