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fo ^ di * le # t $ Mw <*< § ofr pf * hs fwp& tty of the Academy , and the rank and eha * looter of the piai ) r ? ptther beight ^ ened than palliated the crime . Neither can any justification be pleaded far the violation of a solemn contract to remain a stipulated time to discharge the duties of his office . But , after all , there seems no proportion between the measure of criminality , taken in its full extent , and the capital punishment awarded it , or the exorbitant securities demanded afterwards on the remission of that punishment . There is ground
& > suspect that -the severity was assumed for the purpose of retaining Bar * - tholomeus in the Academy of Pisa , which had acquired high honour by the reputation of his talents , and depriving the other Italian universities of an , accession which might raise them into formidable rivals . It is well known tb&fitfoer Italian , states were exceedingly desirous of engaging his services * and he occasionally yielded to their importunities . Though he passed most , of his time at Pisa , we find him some years occupying the juridical chair at
F-ent » m , iato ^ ertwes # Bologna , and at others at Pa $ ua , but his biogrck . phers do npjt fee with preefeioji > tfee dates and the duration x > f his stay at ifeese TOjvejgskies , J > uringjiis residence at Pisa , which continued with occasional interrupt tions for 3 * beut twenty years , fee frequently took a lively interest and a personal ronewnin rtfae affairs and nalitics of his native citv . Whenever a sense of
jkoreomen * mi &y hi $ .-personal influence to haye new modelled the goyenir * ft eni . On several occasions fee was employed by ^ he Senese as their anir bassador to other states . Bartholqmeus is to be viewed as a melancholy example of intellectual ( endowiaents of the highest order , tarnished and debased by low and de-r . grading vices . Nothing e Pisa Aca ^ d erny . Ganinqg was his ruling paspiop ^ and this was prpba ^ ly the parent iqf aU his fOjthsr moral failings m $ de , lipqu ^ nc ^ s . It was ^ his ; fijequent custom to
^ o spend whole , pigbts at c ^ rcjs and dice . His inveterate devotion play inecessa ^ ily \ ut € i rfe , r ^ i with l * is professional pursuits find duties , and led him , to ; d < efraud his pupils of fce [ lectures to which they were entitled . This < £ oui $ e of life fproyed his , ni ( n : lie lost by ft all the property he had inherited . from fhjs ( father , besides a handsome fortune which ; he had ( acquired by his . ^ rpfewionjil pr , actice ; a 8 ; a Jteqturer ^ nd pleader . } & \ $ necessities drpve him in rtfee Jatter part Qf ; his life , to report tp m ^ v ^ oithy expedients to raise ten ^ porary Bonae
jfiupphes pf inoiiiey . JJe 4 ied in peat . penury ^ n 1507 , in the suburbs of Siena , wid was buried ftt fk& p ^ U ^ c e ^ pe ^ se . He was deprived years ^ before bisd ^ ftth of the ufte pt feis speeeh bya paralytic seizure . TJu s ca-Jwnity oompcilted him to fftlinquish his public employments , and to conftne tbisiqgfti p « p ? lifie , tp ttie busm ^ ss ^ f , a Qbanib ^ r Cpun ^ ellor . PftQcirolus ? elj » tes qf him that his memory e . mkely failed fe jjn on two remarkable occasions . In the year 1492 , he was appointed by the Republic pf Si ^ na to be Jtheir ambassador to congratulate Pope Alexander V \ . pn his elevation . Scarcely bajj ^ nhtfgwn . to d ^ i ^ r % ^ d 4 r < ass , ylUck was dieted ) tp , biimJby ^ og ^ lws ^ JPpJMiani ^ , wten ^ e ^|^ 4 , ^ d ym wMly ] W # k to
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/30/
