De Consolatione  

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"Certainly the sweetest sleep is the deepest sleep, when we are almost like the dead, not dreaming anything; whereas the most irksome sleep is the one that is very light, restless, interrupted by constant waking, tormented by nightmares and visions, as happens to those who are ill".--


"On Consolation I published for the first time in the midst of the sorrows which beset me. Later I added On Wisdom, so that the whole might be printed for the second time in the year 1543. In the meanwhile I wrote those numerous short treatises, some of which are published, others not yet, and I also wrote the whole body of my medical works, four of which you see published— On the Aphorisms, On Nourishment, On Air, Water, and Places and On the Books of Prognostics . Thus far there are ready two commentaries entitled Floridorum, a commentary on the Ars Medica of Galen and the first and second parts of On 'Epidemics of Hippocrates . "--De Consolatione (1542) by Cardano, tr. via Italo Calvion's Why Read the Classics?.

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De Consolatione (1542) is a Latin text by Cardano.

Translation into English by T. Bedingfield (1573).




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