[128] p. 369.
[129] The fame of Scots as judges of precious stones had spread to Italy before Cardan's time. In the Novellino of Masuccio, which was first printed in 1476, there is a passage in the tenth novel of the first part, in which a rogue passes as "grandissimo cognoscitore" of gems because he had spent much time in Scotland.
[130] De Varietate, p. 636.
[131] De Varietate, p. 637.
[132] Ibid., p. 637.
[133] Ibid., p. 565.
[134] "Peracto L anno quod stipendium non remuneraretur mansi Mediolani."—De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 15.
[135] About this time he wrote the Liber Decem Problematum, and the treatise Delle Burle Calde, one of his few works written in Italian.—Opera, tom. i. p. 109.
[136] Cassanate's letter is given in full (Opera, tom. i. p. 89).
[137] The quotation from the De Sapientia differs somewhat from the original passage which stands on p. 578 of the same volume.