8 JUL. CÆS. VANINI

In Geneva original: "Coloniae Allobrogum", he says he discussed prohibited marriages. Furthermore, Guy Patin A famous French physician and man of letters informs us that he performed an ecclesiastical duty in Aquitaine.

Finally, in England, he emerged as a new soldier for the Propaganda Fide Propagation of the Faith. This was a duty full of labor and dangers, which he not only did not refuse, but having been captured in London and imprisoned for forty-nine days in the stone-quarries original: "latomiis", referring to the dark, cave-like prisons as if in a sort of training ground, he says he was inflamed and set on fire by the desire to shed his blood for defending the authority of the Church. He claimed that no greater or better gift could have happened to him from immortal God. He would have been a prophet not to be despised, and fortunate indeed, if that had been his final day. Perhaps then a holy or blessed Julius Caesar would appear in the Calendar, had not harsh poverty, that difficult mother, prohibited the expensive work of apotheosis the process of being declared a saint or god. But harsher fates awaited him, which brought him back safely to Genoa, where he lectured on Philosophy to Giacomo Auria, a most illustrious and highly talented youth. From there he came to Lyon, where the hatred of the Clergy did not cease, for they preserve such things immortally. Meanwhile, so that he might either heal the wounds of adverse fortune, or at least soothe them by some means,

• Vanini, On the Secrets of Nature, page 328.
  † Patin, in his Manuscript Adversaria.
  ‡ Vanini, Exercise 19, page 118 of the Amphitheatre.
  ⸸ Vanini, Exercise 40, page 144 of the Amphitheatre.