On the Art of Living with Oneself

Markus Fierz

Chapter 7 in Girolamo Cardano, 1983, pp 156-166 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract AS I MENTIONED earlier, Cardano spent the last years of his life in Rome. He was given a pension by the Pope and was permitted to practice medicine, but forbidden to publish.1 No further legal proceedings were begun against him, and the matter was quietly laid to rest. However, Cardano was still worried that the Inquisition might prosecute him again. The new pope, Gregory XIII, was regarded as amiable and had a liberal reputation, but he marked the beginning of his pontificat in Paris on St. Bartholomew’s night 1572, celebrating the festival with a TeDeum. The intellectual climate had changed significantly during the previous decade as the counterreformation was spreading everywhere. Understandably, these developments were most disquieting to the old Cardano, and he was not always successful in maintaining his philosophical calm. He was, nonetheless, a true philosopher and experienced psychologist, and knew how to cope with his own troubled mind.

Keywords: Fairy Tale; Sensual Pleasure; Great Thing; Famous People; Intellectual Climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9206-4_7

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