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end of this year, 160162, 

 that his health has been 

 constantly improving. Be- 

 ing questioned on the sub- 

 ject, he declines to fix 

 himself in Edinburgh, 163, 



1555. Julius Caesar Scaliger having 



written a book for the pur- 

 pose of confuting Cardan's 

 celebrated work on Sub- 

 tilty, is replied to without 

 being named, 176185. 



1556. In this year, Gianbatista, 



Cardan's eldest son, after 

 two rejections, obtains his 

 degree of doctor, 203 ; and 

 it as probably in this year 

 that Cardan's daughter 

 Clara marries Bartolomeo 

 Sacco, a young Milanese 

 patrician, 166. 



1557. Dec. 21, 'Gianbatista Cardan 



marries secretly a worth- 

 less girl, Brandonia Seroni, 

 187,204206; 



1558 he is left to himself, and 



struggles with difficulty, 

 207, 208; but Jerome re- 

 lents, and gives him an 

 allowance for the main- 

 tenance of his new house- 

 hold, 188 198; 



1559 which he receives during 



seventeen months, 234. 

 1560. Early in this year Cardan 



returns to his professor- 

 ship at Pavia, 198, but is 

 recalled in a few weeks to 

 Milan, 213, where Gian- 

 batista's wife is dead of 

 poison, and both his sons 

 have been arrested for the 

 murder, 207212. Gian- 

 batista owns his guilt, 216 ; 

 his father sacrifices all to 

 save him, 213219, pleads 

 for him in person, 219236, 

 without success. Gianba- 

 tista is condemned andexe- 

 cuted on the 7th of April. 

 "Within the same week his 

 eldest child dies, and there 

 remains only his infant, 

 which, although born in 

 adultery, Cardan adopts 

 into his household as his 

 grandson Fazio, 238. 



After this stroke Cardan 

 droops and grows mis- 

 trustful, 239241. His re- 

 putation is destroyed, 213, 

 238, and his mind filled 

 with sick imaginations, 

 242,255260. He betakes 

 himself to bo9k-writing, 

 244246, to dice-playing 

 and night-watching, 275, 



and tortures his body to 

 relieve the torture of his 

 mind, 274. 



1561. He remains unwillingly at 



Pavia. William, the Eng- 

 lish youth, apprenticed to 

 a tailor in Milan, 248, 249, 

 250, is, after the payment of 

 the premium, overworked 

 and misused, 251; finally 

 he dies of fever in the 

 poor-house, 252. Jerome 

 is deeply afflicted, and be- 

 gins to erect to him a 

 literary monument, a Dia- 

 logue on Death, 253. 



1562. Shrinking from the faces 



that he knows at Pa- 

 via, Cardan endeavours, 

 through the influence of 

 Cardinal Borromeo, to 

 effect an exchange to Bo- 

 logna, 254. Being an- 

 swered favourably, ne re- 

 signs his chair at Pavia, 

 255; but the offer from 

 Bologna comes to him fet- 

 tered with dishonourable 

 conditions, and he refuses 

 it; is, therefore, without 

 employment,264,265. Fear- 

 ing accusations, he sub- 

 mits his books to the 

 authority of the Church, 

 269. Being ill in Milan, he 

 discovers by experience a 

 new remedy, and acquires 

 with it some return of his 

 old fame, 269, 270. It is 

 proposed that he shall take 

 a professorship in Milan, 

 270 ; while his fortunes are 

 thus mending, he is sud- 

 denly banished by a decree 

 of the senate, 271. Having 

 been partly set right by the 

 intervention of the Church 

 authorities at Rome, 271, 

 and the senate of Bologna 

 haying removed its most 

 objectionable conditions, 

 Jerome goes, though for a 

 small salary, to teach at 

 the University of Bologna, 

 272, 273. 



1563. At Bologna surrounded by 



discomfort and disputes, 

 the printing of his books 

 stopped, and his small in- 

 come from rents withheld 

 from him, 284. 



1564. In July, through Cardinal 



Alciat's help, rents reach 

 him ; in August books 

 come to him printed. In 

 this year one of his rivals 

 quits Bologna. 



