. Annals of medical history. n whose reputa-tion travelled from Italy to England. Thebook is quite short, very objective, unspar-ing in its self-analysis and full of curiousdetails of the authors personality andcareer. It has been called one of the threegreat autobiographies in literature; theothers being Caesars Annals and Rous-seaus Confessions. Cardan was sensitive, affectionate, intro-spective, imaginative, superstitious, humor-ous, inclined to ideas of self-reproach withhigh ambition and hypomanic his own weaknesses, he admitshe was always inclined to sensuous pleasure
. Annals of medical history. n whose reputa-tion travelled from Italy to England. Thebook is quite short, very objective, unspar-ing in its self-analysis and full of curiousdetails of the authors personality andcareer. It has been called one of the threegreat autobiographies in literature; theothers being Caesars Annals and Rous-seaus Confessions. Cardan was sensitive, affectionate, intro-spective, imaginative, superstitious, humor-ous, inclined to ideas of self-reproach withhigh ambition and hypomanic his own weaknesses, he admitshe was always inclined to sensuous these, he adds, his worst and greatestwas his love of music. In his book hebecomes very melancholy over this defectin his morals. He was not of the woman-pursuing type, but he wrote some adviceto his sons about love. Love is a pleasant torture, a noI)le folly and amadness of a unique kind. It is the fruit of youth, the crime of age. Tolove and to be wise belongs to the Gods alone. As to Cardans standing in retrospect. I. k The Siok^ or a Ciia/,inc and London Review lor1816, was A Fragment Found in a Skele-ton Case. It was signed solely with theinitial V. There has be
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