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With the lucrative contingencies attached to his forgery, such as disposing of copies from the original, a privilege which he, doubtless, obtained from his friend Cosmo de' Medici, and for which he must have frequently got large sums of money, he may have gratified the inclination he expressed six years before to his friend, Niccoli, of spending 400 gold sequins a year; "non sum pecuniosus ... erat animus expendere usque ad CCCC. aureos, non quod tot habeam."

"Accepique antequam discederem aureos coronatos Gallicos 500 et M.C.C. in reditu." De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 16. "Difficillimis causis victus venire non potui." The Archbishop's letter is given in Opera, tom. i. p. 137. Geniturarum Exempla, p. 469. He mentions this personage in De Varietate, p. 672: "Johannes Manienus medicus, vir egregius et mathematicaram studiosus."

Scribit mihi se daturum operam, ut habeam triennio quingentos aureos: fient sexcenti, et acquiescam.

De Vita Propria, ch. xii. p. 39. In his defence at the trial Cardan affirmed that, while Brandonia was lying sick from eating the cake, her mother and the nurse quarrelled and fought, and finally fell down upon the sick woman. When the fight was over Brandonia was dead. "Vocatus sum enim ad Ducem Suessanum ex Ticinensi Academia accepique C. aureos coronatos et dona ex serico."