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JEROME CAKDAN.

Julius Cffisar, after his place of education in Sclavonia , DaBurden, in order to distinguish clearly between him andhis brother Titus. Enemies of Scaliger made light, after-wards, of the Verona story, and undertook to prove thathe belonged to a family of humble tradesfolk, bearing thename of Burden. Julius Caesar , rightly or wrongly, heldhimself to be a prince born to a principality that wasmaintained against him by the enemy, Verona being inthe hands of the Venetians. To get his own, he thoughtthat he could do nothing better than become a pope, anddeclare war with Venice. He, therefore, at length quittedhis post in the army, and began a bold push for the pope-dom by betaking himself to Bologna with a view to prepa-ration for an entry into the Franciscan order. He studiedat Bologna logic and scholastic philosophy—especiallythe works of Duns Scotus —but a little closer knowledgeof Franciscans soon disgusted him, and he forsook theircompany. At Bologna he had made himself remarkableby having his hair cropped, while other Italians wore ittolerably long on each side of the face, as the monks usedto do. He became known, therefore, by his crown amongthe Bolognese as Tonso da Burden. That name he re-tained when he left study, and, resuming his old profes-sion as a soldier, served under the King of France inItaly . He was diverted at last from a military life bylove of knowledge and by gout, and having been suf-