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Updated: May 12, 2025
He searches the pages of Hector Boethius, Nicolaus Donis, Rugerus, Petrus Toletus, Leo Africanus, and other chroniclers of the marvellous, for tales of witchcraft, prodigies, and monstrous men and beasts, and devotes a whole chapter to chiromancy, a subject with which he had occupied his plenteous leisure when he was waiting for patients at Sacco.
Why, he once took a manuscript Terence, full of holes and mistakes, in writing to Cardinal Toletus, and told him that it was worth all the gold in the world'; and, to convince his Spanish Eminence, he said that the book was a thousand years' old. 'Est-il possible? replies the Cardinal, 'you don't say so.
In the various branches of learning we need mention a few of the greater writers. In astronomy, we find Ricci, Perry, De Vico, Secchi, Curley, Sestini. In mathematics, Hagen, Algué. In archæology, Garucci, Marchi, the master of De Rossi. In Oriental languages, Strassmaier, Harvas, Maas, Van den Gheyn. In theology, Suarez, Vasquez, Toletus, Maldonatus, Franzelin.
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