Judging by what subsequently happened, it will perhaps be held that fate, in cutting her thread of life, was kinder to her than to her husband, when it gave him a longer term of years under the sun. FOOTNOTES: [67] _De Libris Propriis_, Opera, tom. i. p. 102. [68] Besides the _De Malo Medendi Usu_, he published in 1536 a tract upon judicial astrology. This, in an enlarged form, was reprinted by Petreius at Nuremburg in 1542. [69] Cardan writes of Brissac: "Erat enim Brissacus Prorex singularis in studiosis amoris et humanitatis."--_De Vita Propria_, ch. iv. p. 14. [70] "Mirumque in modum venenis cornu ejus adversari creditur."--_De Subtilitate_, p. 315. Sir Thomas Browne (_Vulgar Errors_, Bk. iii. 23) deals at length with the pretended virtues of the horn, and in the Bestiary of Philip de Thaun (_Popular Treatises on Science during the Middle Ages_) is given an account of the many wonderful qualities of the beast. [71] _De Vita Propria_, ch. xxxiii. p. 105. He also alludes to this case in _De Libris Propriis_ (Opera, tom. i. p. 65), affirming that the other doctors concerned in the case raised a great prejudice against him on account of his reputation as an astrologer. "Ita tot modis et insanus paupertate, et Astrologus profitendo edendoque libros, et imperitus casu illustris pueri, et modum alium medendi observans ex titulo libri nuper edito, jam prope ab omnibus habebar. Atque haec omnia in Urbe omnium nugacissima, et quae calumniis maxime patet." [72] The founder of this family was Indico d'Avalos, a Spanish gentleman, who was chosen by Alfonso of Naples as a husband for Antonella, the daughter and heiress of the great Marchese Pescara of Aquino. This d'Avalos Marchese dal Guasto was the grandson of Indico. He commanded the advanced guard at the battle of Pavia, and took part in almost every battle between the French and Imperialists, and went with the Emperor to Tunis in 1535. Though he was a brave soldier and a skilful tactician, he was utterly defeated by d'Enghien at Cerisoles in 1544. He has been taxed with treachery in the case of the attack upon the messengers Rincon and Fregoso, who were carrying letters from Francis I. to the Sultan during a truce, but he did little more than imitate the tactics used by the French against himself; moreover, neither of the murdered men was a French subject, or had the status of an ambassador. D'Avalos was a liberal patron of letters and arts, and was very popular as Governor of Milan. He was a noted gallant and a great dandy. Brantome writes of him--"qu'il etait si dameret qu'il parfumait jusqu'aux selles de ses chevaux."--He died in 1546. [73] "Violentia quorundam Medicorum adactus sum anno MDXXXVI, seu XXXVII, turpi conditione pacisci cum Collegio, sed ut dixi, postmodum dissoluta est, anno MDXXXIX et restitutus sum integre."--_De Vita Propria_, ch. xxxiii. p. 105. [74] _De Vita Propria_, ch. xl. p. 133.--He gives a long list of cases of his successful treatment in _Opera_, tom. i. p. 82.