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Updated: May 23, 2025
And yet it is hard to fix the date of the work with any exactness. It had apparently not begun in 1286, for a mandate of Archbishop Romanus in that year begins Cancellus Rypon' ruinosus reparetur; but it may have been completed before the irruption of the Scots in 1318.
"At ego qui, ut dixi, Harpocraticus sum dicebam: Summus Pont: decrepitus est: murus ruinosus, certa pro incertis derelinquam?" De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 15. It is quite possible that Paul III. may have desired to have Cardan about him on account of his reputation as an astrologer, the Pope being a firm believer in the influence of the stars. Vide Ranke, History of the Popes i. 166.
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