[211] Opera, tom. x. p. 462.

[212] "Sed filius minor natu adeò malè se gessit, ut malim transire in nepotem ex primo filio."—De Vita Propria, ch. xxxvi. p. 112.

[213] De Vita Propria, ch. xxvii. p. 71.

[214] De Vita Propria, ch. xii. p. 40.

[215] Opera, tom. x. p. 459.

[216] De Vita Propria, ch. xvii. p. 56.

[217] De Vita Propria, ch. xxiii. p. 104.

[218] This opinion prevailed with men of learning far into the next century. Sir Thomas Browne writes: "They that doubt of these, do not only deny them, but spirits; and are obliquely and upon consequence a sect not of infidels, but atheists."—Religio Medici, Works, vol. ii. p. 89.

[219] This was the Cardinal, the nephew of Andrea the great jurist, who was also a good friend of Cardan.

[220] Opera, tom. x. p. 463.