Having vented his wrath on paper, Sanudo promptly forgot his sombre vows of vengeance. For many years afterwards he went backwards and forwards [Illustration: S. GIACOMO IN ORIO] between the ducal palace and his own house at San Giacomo in Orio, where he had collected books and prints to a very great value. He was almost forgotten until very recent times, when he was rediscovered in his diary, and treated with the honour he deserves by his own countrymen. There was no university in Venice, but the government encouraged those teachers who established themselves in the city and gave instruction in their own homes. In this way they formed little schools which quarrelled with each other over definitions, syllogisms, and etymologies in the most approved fashion. There is a good instance of one of these miniature civil wars in connection with the historian Sabellico. He was [Sidenote: _Cicogna, Iscrizioni, i. 341._] ferociously jealous of a certain learned priest called Ignatius, who taught literature, as he did, and had many more scholars. In his lectures Sabellico attacked Ignatius furiously, and did his best to destroy his reputation. The priest on his side held his tongue, and waited for a chance of giving his hot-headed adversary a lesson. At last Sabellico published a very indifferent work, of which the priest wrote such a keen criticism that the book was a dead failure. The State historian’s rage broke out in the most violent invectives, and from that time Ignatius was his nightmare, and the mere mention of his name drove him into uncontrollable fury, until, dying at last, Sabellico realised that his hatred of the priest had been the mortal sin of his life, and on his deathbed he sent for him and asked for a reconciliation. Ignatius freely pardoned him, and even delivered a very flattering funeral oration over his body a few days later. A distinguished man of this period who deserves mention was Federigo Badoer, who may almost be said [Illustration: DOORWAY OF THE SACRISTY, S. GIACOMO IN ORIO] to have been educated in the printing press of Aldus, and afterwards became the friend of Paulus Manutius. Like all Venetian nobles, he learned from his boyhood how he was to serve the State, and became acquainted with the working of its administration, and he was soon struck by the condition of the Code. The laws had multiplied too much, and were often obscure, and the whole system was in great need of revision. Badoer conceived the idea of founding an academy for the purpose of editing and printing the whole body of [Sidenote: _Mutinelli, Annali._] Venetian Law; the Council of Ten gave him their approval, and he founded the Academy of ‘La Fama’--of Fame--with the singularly inappropriate motto, ‘I fly to heaven and rest in God.’ The printing of the new Code was entrusted to Paulus Manutius.