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out doctor or priest, peacefully expired. ^ It is said that he had
often foretold that he would die of cerebral apoplexy, and he
was not deceived.

Burial—Place

Every authority states that he was universally lamented and
that his funeral was magnificent, but even the Veronese disagree
as to his burial—place. 'Those who say that he was buried at
Padua are certainly wrong. The most common version is that
his body was carried in great state to Verona and buried in the
famous church of Santa Eufemia in the parish where was his
town residence.' But in that church I looked in vain, in 1929,
for any memorial to Fracastorius. Barbarani of Verona Say8
in his Life (1897) that he was buried there, but he has informed
me that in a Fourth Edition, not yet published, he will state
that he was mistaken, and that Fracastorius was buried in the
little church of Santa Eufemia,? now in ruins, that was near
the villa at Incafh. His bones were probably scattered when,
at an uncertain date, the church was destroyed. At Verona,
south of the Porta Vittoria, is the imposing monumental Cimitero
designed on a vast scale in 1828, where are the monuments,
nearly all, apparently, cenotaphs, of the most famous Veronese
nobles and distinguished citizens. Over the alcove numbered
I, first of the series, is carved the name FRAcAsroRO, but it
is a cenotaph.

Portraits

There are extant many portraits of Fracastorius, and thäy
have been well described by Dr. A. C. Klebs? who has, I suppose,

:'The authority for this is the Vita in the ed. of Opera Omnia,
1555, followed by Mencke, Meunier, Fossel and Riddell (1928).
Since this Vita must have been read and approved by the editor
Rannusio the friend of Fraecastorius, one hesitates to reject its evi—
dence. But Barbarani informs me in a letter (1929) that an in—
scription on marble is still to be seen in the ruins of the church at
Incafli, and presumably this inscription indicates the tomb.

? This is not a new theory, but it was discredited by most of the
biographers as an error which arose from the fact that the two
churches were dedicated to the same saint.  Professor Capparoni
of Rome states that Fracastorius was buried "in una chiesetta
dedicata a S. Eufemia annessa alla sua villa"; by this he means the
church at Incaffi.

$ See Bibliography.