The closing words of his eulogy on his father tell how the son, on the father's death, found that one small house was all he could call his own. The explanation of this seems to be that the old man, being of a careless disposition and litigious to boot, had left his affairs in piteous disorder. In consequence of this neglect Jerome was involved in lawsuits for many years, and the one afore-mentioned with the Barbiani was one of them. This case was subsequently settled in Jerome's favour. FOOTNOTES: [28] Pavia, like certain modern universities, did not spend all its time over study. "Aggressus sum Mediolani vacationibus quadragenariae, seu Bacchanalium potius, anni MDLXI. Ita enim non obscurum est, nostra aetate celebrari ante quadragenariam vacationes, in quibus ludunt, convivantur, personati ac larvati incedunt, denique nullum luxus ac lascivae genus omittunt: Sybaritae et Lydi Persaeque vincuntur." _Opera_, tom. i. p. 118. [29] These books were taken to Blois. They were subsequently removed by Francis I. to Fontainebleau, and with the other collections formed the nucleus of the Bibliotheque Nationale. [30] _De Vita Propria_, ch. v. p. 18. [31] The time covered by this experience was from his fourth to his seventh year. [32] _De Vita Propria_, ch. xxxvii. p. 114; _De Rerum Subtilitate_ (Basil, 1554), p. 524. [33] _Opera_, tom. i. p. 61. [34] "Erat liber exiguus, rem tamen probe absolvebat: nam tunc forte in manus meas inciderat, Gebri Hispani liber, cujus auxilio non parum adjutus sum."--_Opera_, tom. i. p. 56. [35] "Initio multi quidem paupertate aliave causa quum se nolunt subjicere rigoroso examini Cl. Collegii in artibus Medicinae vel in Jure, Baccalaureatus, vel Doctoratus gradum a Comitibus Palatinis aut Lateranensibus sumebant. Postea vero, sublata hac consuetudine, Gymnasii Rector, sive substitutus, convocatis duobus professoribus, bina puncta dabantur, iisque recitatis et diligentis [_sic_] excussis, illis gradus Baccalaureatus conferebatur."--_Gymnasium Patavinum_ (1654), p. 200. [36] He constantly bewails this step as the chief folly of his life: "Stulte vero id egi, quod Rector Gymnasii Patavini effectus sum, tum, cum, inops essem, et in patria maxime bella vigerent, et tributa intolerabilia. Matris tamen solicitudine effectum est, ut pondus impensarum, quamvis aegre, sustinuerim."--_De Utilitate_, p. 350. [37] _De Vita Propria_, ch. iv. p. 11. [38] Muratori, _Chron. di Bologna_, xviii. 254. [39] The stipends paid to teachers of jurisprudence were much more liberal than those paid to humanists. In the Diary of Sanudo it is recorded that a jurist professor at Padua received a thousand ducats per annum. Lauro Quirino, a professor of rhetoric, meantime received only forty ducats, and Laurentius Valla at Pavia received fifty sequins.--Muratori, xxii. 990. [40] Tomasinus, _Gymnasium Patavinam_ (1654), p. 136.