A Conjectural Chronology of Cardano’s Writings

by Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford and University of St Andrews)

Presentation

In my publication of Cardano’s various editions of De Libris propriis, (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004, pp. 46-100) I produced a chronological list of his works in two parts.[1] The first part (M 1-144) records works up to publication of the last edition of De libris propriis, and uses the information in the various recensions of that work (1544, 1550, 1557, 1562) to produce a chronology. In these works, Cardano’s various accounts of his sequence of intellectual endeavours were comprehensive and in large part consistent with each other. The detailed evidence and commentary that I have already published is not repeated here; only errors and omissions have been noted. The numeration remains the same up to M 118; thereafter the previous M number is only recorded where it refers back to the already published evidence and commentary.

The second part of my previous chronology (M 145-78) was a provisional sequence of subsequent works based exclusively on the forty-fifth chapter of De Vita propria, which lacked the precise sequencing of the various versions of Cardano’s De libris propriis. I offer here a new sequence with revised numbering for the period 1562-1576, based on various sources: the Wills of 1566, 1571 and 1576, DVP, and internal evidence gleaned from the various writings.[2] The list in DVP (OO 1.40-3; I have used here the recent critical edition and translation by Jean-Yves Boriaud)[3] is one of the last two lists of Cardano’s published and unpublished works produced by himself at the very end of his life: the other being the inventory in the Will of 21 August 1576.[4] These two lists are substantially the same. Cardano’s reference in chapter 36 of M 206 De vita propria (Boriaud p. 193) to a new Will as yet to be composed might suggest that that the Will of 1576 is the last account by Cardano of his surviving works. The Will confirms that Cardano had obtained the permission from religious authorities to acknowledge the works that he lists, together with recommendations as to whom to approach as dedicatees.[5] This confirms that Cardano, although not poor, did not think that he was in a position to finance his own publications. The Will of 1576 alludes to three (or four) unpublished works not specifically mentioned in chapter 45 of De vita propria. Like the 1550, 1557 and 1562 editions of the De libris propriis, the Wills and chapter 45 of DVPdivide the works into published (‘impressi’) and unpublished (‘scripti’, ‘edendi’). Most of these sources also group the works under disciplinary rubrics. Those in De vita propria for published works are ‘mathematici’, ‘astronomici’, ‘physici’, ‘morales’, ‘varia opuscula’, ‘opuscula medicinae’, ‘commentarii medicinae’, ‘in divinandi genere’ and ‘impressi quos non connumero’; for manuscripts the first three rubrics are the same, followed by ‘in medica arte’, ‘in theologia’, and ‘diversorum argumentorum’. Two of these categories have particularly confusing histories: ‘astronomici’, which includes genitures, of which many manuscripts survive in public libraries, and which I have not attempted here to include as separate works; and ‘mathematici’, of which it may be plausibly assumed that many of the surviving manuscripts in the Nachlass were produced well before 1562.[6]

Other sources which are referred to in the chronological list are the MSS relating to the Nachlass: the list sent by Gerolamo Aleandro (1574-1629) to Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) for communication to the Dupuy circle in Paris in 1629 (here referred to as ‘Dupuy’)[7]; this corresponds in great part to Coconaro’s list, but refers to two bound books of Opuscula and two volumes of Fragmenta in folio, which in 1643 in the relevant section of Naudé’s ‘Vita Cardani et de eo iudicium’ of 1643 (OO 1.sig. î1r-ô2v) are confirmed as being part of Coconaro’s collection of MSS. The Billaine list of 1654[8] has entries for five (not four) bound MSS Sammelbände (it would appear that most of Cardano’s MSS ended up bound form):

1. ‘Opusculorum variorum volumen’
M 225 Sermo de plus et minus, M 204 Dialogus in sui personam et Patris, M 208 In Marsilii Ficini Theologiam Proemium, M 53 Elementa linguae Graecae, M 196 De inventione, and M 120 Hymnus ad Deum. The list ends with the words ‘alia quaedam sed partim imperfecta, partim absque titulo’, among which is probably. M 140 De naturalibus viribus.
2. ‘Opusculorum medicorum tomus 1’
M 135 Anatomiam Mundini, ‘Consilia varia’, and ‘De variis morbis tractatus’. The list ends ‘&c’.
3. ‘Opusculorum medicorum tomus 2’
M 73 Historia morbi validissima exemplar trium librorum epidemiorum, ‘Consilia varia’, M 220 De aceti natura iuxrta materiam &c, ‘Curationes variae’; M 218 Signa propinati veneni et alia de venenis, M 210 De sterilitate, M 222 De epilepsia, and M 221 De febrile pestilente. The list ends with the words ‘alia innumera’.
4. ‘Volumen continens plurima ad Medicam Artem pertinentia’
M 214 De podagae curatione [‘desunt 3 capit.’], M 230 Liber de usu Ciborum and M 192 De urinis tractatus.
5. ‘Opuscula varia et fragmenta’
M 212 De Alopecia, Furfuribus seu porrigine, Pediculari morbo, Achoribus, Dolore capitis, M 167 De septimestri partu comment. ad Hippocratem and M 92 De spirandi difficultate, as well as other works indicated by ‘&c’.

The ‘Ad lectorem humanissimum praefatio’ of OO 1.sig. ê4r-v, lists missing works, and works too damaged to print: M 13 Contradicentia medica (books 11 and 12), M 27 Libri elementorum geometricorum, M 221 Tractatus de febribus putridis, M 42 Tractatio de morbo Gallico, M 71 Commentarii in Artem Medicam Galeni, and M 215-7 Commentarii in libb. Galeni de differ. Morborum, de differentia symptomatum, de differ. Febrium. OO also lists works mentioned by Naudé but not located by the editor: M 228 Liber de Prudentia eximia, M 229 Liber de origine ventorum, M 56 Experimenta ad omneis morbos and M 58 Metoposcopiae libr[i] tredecim.[9]

I have indicated whether the items in this chronology are in the OO, and if not, where they are located, or whether they have been lost. In my previous list, I discussed at some length various portemanteau works (M 27 Libri elementorum geometricorum, M 37 Opus perfectum [de mathematicis], M 123 De secretis [2] [previously M 131]) that remained in inchoate form and were not published as such. There are two further entries of this type below: M 137 Theonoston[2] 4-5 alias Hyperboraeorum libri [2] and M 138Paralipomena. In all other cases of composition before 1562, I have not repeated the information in DLP, other than facts about its publication, its present location, and its fate if subsumed or included in other works (this applies to many early works on medicine). I have not included all the manuscripts attributed to Cardano which are to be found in public libraries, listed in the ‘Archivio’ of this website. It is probable that many of these manuscripts are sections of published works or manuscripts in this list.

Notes

[1] Girolamo Cardano, De Libris propriis: the editions of 1544, 1550, 1557, 1562, with supplementary material. ed. Ian Maclean, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004, pp. 43-119.

[2] Renato Soriga, ‘I testamenti di Girolamo Cardano durante i tre utltimi anni di suo soggiorno in Pavia’, Bollettino della Società Pavese di Storia Patria, 15 (1915), 148-54 (Wills of 1560, 1561 and 1562); Enrico Rivari, ‘Un testamento inedito del Cardano’, Studi e memorie per la storia dell’università di Bologna, 4 (1920), 3-25 (Will of 1571); A Bertoletti, ‘I testamenti di Girolamo Cardano’, Archivio Storico Lombardo, 9 (1882), 638-60 (Wills of 1566 and 1576).

[3] Opera omnia, ed. Charles Spon, 10 vols, Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan and Marc-Antoine Ravaud, 1663 (hereafter OO); Jérôme Cardan, Le livre de ma vie: De vita propria, ed. and trans. Jean-Yves Boriaud, Paris: Belles Lettres, 2020 (hereafter Boriaud), pp. 283-305.

[4] A Bertoletti, ‘I testamenti di Girolamo Cardano’. In the Biblioteca Federiciana di Fano, Ms. Amiani 80, cc. 306r-313r, there is a notarial copy of the Will made in Rome in 1576 dated 15 October 1577, but it is not clear for whom it was made.

[5] The differences are the following: the Will of 1576 (but not De vita propria) lists the following: M 173 περί ἀιώρωv και βαθέωv, (book 2 of M 176 Promptuarius); ‘Dubiorum lib. 1’ which I have taken to be M 174 Quaestiones difficiles et admirabiles (book 3 of M 176 Promptuarius), and M 175 Succidaneorum li[ber] (probably the missing book 4 of M 176 Promptuarius). The other non-listed works areM 85 De praeceptis ad filios, andM 188 Castigationes (here given the title Lib. Emendationum; in De vita propria ‘Expunction[es]’ are mentioned but not listed as a work).

[6] See De libris propriis, ed. Maclean, M 37, pp. 64-5; Massimo Tamborini, ‘Per la storia dell’Opus Arithmeticae Perfectum’, in Cardano e la tradizione dei sapere, ed. Marialuisa Baldi and Guido Canziani. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2003, pp. 157-90.

[7] See Thomas Cerbu, ‘Naudé as editor of Cardano’, in Girolamo Cardano: le opere, le fonti, la vita, pp. 368-78 (376-8).

[8] See Ian Maclean,‘Cardano and his publishers’, in Girolamo Cardano: Philosoph, Naturforscher, Artz, pp. 309-38 (330-1).

[9] Most of the above are included in the earliest of the attempts to list all of Cardano’s works:Filippo Argelati in his Bibliotheca scriptorium Mediolanensium, (Milan: in aedibus Palatinis, 1745, 1.307-16 and 2.1969-70). He also lists a spurium (De animi mortalitate??)

Sigla

† designates a work identified by Charles Spon as part of the Billaine MSS.

* designates works given special status (see De vita propria, ch. 52; Boriaud, p. 365)

P designates a printed work

MS designates a work in manuscript form

DLP De Libris propriis, with the publication date of the edition.

DVP De vita propria, chapter 45.

The subject areas, which correspond quite closely to Cardano’s own groupings (see above, p.

2) are indicated in bold after the title by the following abbreviations:

Med(icine, including physiognomy and metoposcopy)

Astr(onomy, Astrology and Divination)

Phil(osophy, including logic, natural philosophy, physics and metaphysics)

Math(ematics)

Moral (writings on history, practical ethics and politics)

Theol(ogy)

Mus(ic)

Schol(astica) (dismissed in. DLP, 1550, p. 146: ‘extra ordinem…proginasmatis loco habetur’)

Divers (all others, including miscellanies)

Conjectural Chronology

M 1 De distantia locorum dignoscenda Math
Included in a revised form in M 104 De rerum varietate. xii.60.OO 3.227-34.

M 2 De immortalitate Divers
Destroyed before 1557, perhaps in 1538-9.

†M 3 De ludis Math
Only book 4 survives. In Cocanaro, Dupuy, Billaine.
OO 1.161-76 (De ludo aleae)

†M 4 Commentaria Super Posteriorum primum Aristotelis Schol
The best part (not the majority) of the text transferred to Contradictiones logicae (M 5).
CF. Cocamaro: ‘[trattato 7] un commento sopra la Posteriora di Aristotele molto diffuso, poichè l’opera tutta è un libro grande alto sei dita in foglio reale.’
Publication (surmised): OO 1.316-22 (Contradictiones logicae, li-lvi, lxviii, lxxiv, lxxx)

†M.5 Contradictiones logicae Schol
An element of the MSS passed on to Cocanaro. In Dupuy and Billaine.
OO 1.309-38

M.6 Collectanea Divers
Cardano’s commonplace book, not to be confused with the commentary on Averroes (M 43).
Lost

M 7 Canones medicinae alias Medicinae regulae alias Methodus medendi [1] Med
Naudé says that the Cocanaro MSS of M 13 Contradicentium medicorum libri contain medical juvenilia which may derive from this early work.
Possibly subsumed into OO 6.655-923

M 8 Generalium morborum libri tres alias Liber vagantium morborum alias Epidemia Med
As in the case of M 7, material from this work could have been redeployed.
Possibly subsumed into later medical writings.

M 9 De morbis compositis alias De morbis coniunctis MedA work on compound illnesses, written between 1526-33 as the fourth book of M 7.
Possibly subsumed into later medical writings.

M 10 De re venerea Med
According to DLP 1557 transferred into book 4 M 84 of De tuenda sanitate [1]and possibly in an abbreviated form from there into M 185 De tuenda sanitate [2].
OO 6.237 (a chapter with the title ‘de re venerea’).

M 11 Chiromantia Astr
According to DLP 1562, Cardano included the work in M 104 De rerum varietate, xv.79.
OO 3.285-8

M 12 De simplicibus[1] alias De facile parabilibus Med
Another spin-off from M 7, recomposed in 1538; still unfinished in 1557. Probably not the same work as M 36 De simplicibus.
Possibly subsumed into later medical writings.

†M 13 Contradicentium medicorum liber Med
Publication: one book containing 108 contradictions. Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1545; 2 vols, Lyon: Sebastianus Gryphius ,1548; 2 vols, Paris: Jacques Macé ,1564-5. A work which acquired accretions. See also below M 43.
OO 6.655-923 (for books 3-10 published from Cocanaro MSS).

M 14 De pituita Med
Included, according to DLP 1557, in M 84 De tuenda sanitate. Possibly used in the sections on plague in M 151 De venenorum differentiis.
OO 7.275-355 (passim)

M 16 De fato Astr
In four books: the chapter headings are recorded in DLP 1557 and DLP 1562.
Almost certainly destroyed after 1570.

M 17 Astronomica iudicia alias De iudiciis astrorum Astr
DLP 1550 records that the work referred to as ‘libros Astronomicorum iudiciorum’ had been published three times (presumably M 18, 19, 20: the editions of 1538, 1543 and 1547). DLP 1557 and DLP 1562 give two slightly different accounts of a work divided into nine, then ten books.
Redeployed into other works, including M 18, M 19, and M 20.

M.18 Libellus qui dicitur supplementum Almanach Astr
Not thought worthy of listing as a publication in 1576.
Publication: Milan: Giovanni Antonio Castellioneo for Bernard[in]o Calusco, 1538. Reprint: Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1543 and 1547.
OO 5.576-95

M 19 Libellus alius de restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium Astr
Publication: Milan: Giovanni Antonio Castellioneo for Bernard[in]o Calusco, 1538. Reprint: Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1543 and 1547.
OO 5.1-14

M 20 Quinque principum geniture cum expositione. Quinque eruditorum virorum geniture cum expositione Astr
Publication: Milan: Giovanni Antonio Castellioneo for Bernard[in]o Calusco, 1538. Reprint: Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1543 and 1547.
Subsumed into OO 5.458-502

M 21 Pronostico o vero judicio generale composto per lo eccellente messer Hieronymo Cardano, dal 1534 al 1550 con molti capitoli eccellenti Astr
Not included in the lists of published works; there is a fleeting allusion to it in DVP.
Publication: Venice, per B. de Bindonis, 1534.
Not in OO

M 22 De varietate rerum [1] alias Liber in imitatione Agrippae Phil
Material redeployed in M 81 De Subtilitate.
Publication (surmised): OO 3.615-35

M 23 De circulis sphaericis Math
Abandoned, except for the part concerning ‘pondera et umbrae’, according to DLP 1557.
Publication (surmised): OO 4.489-507, 524-6 (the relevant sections of M 153 De proportionibus)

M 24 De circulis [1] Math
Not to be confused with M 67 below. The ‘best parts’ were transferred to M 104 De rerum varietate, according to DLP 1557.
Publication (surmised): OO 3.217-26

M 25 Super primum et septem Geographiae Ptolemaei librum Phil
Redeployed in M 81 De subtilitate and M 104 De rerum varietate.
Publication (surmised): OO 3.227-34 (on chorography)

M 26 Super Sacrobusti de sphaera Math
The ‘best parts’ said in DLP 1557 to be included in M 104 De rerum varietate.
Publication (surmised) OO 3.221-5

†M 27 Novae Geometriae libri quindecim Math
Cf. M 23, 24, 26. Possibly composed of, and subsumed into, other mathematical works.
DLP 1562:69 says that all but the last book was complete. DVP 1576 records the work as having two books. See also below, M 37.
OO 1.ê4v refers to a MS ‘Libri elementorum geometricorum’ in too bad a condition to publish.

M 28 Pronostico del anno 1535. Do lo excellentissimo Astrologo Hieronymo Gardano Milanese, Fatto per la via de Ptolemeo Astr
See M 21; publication recorded by Georg Wolfgang Panzer in 1801: Milan, Gotardo da Ponte and Vincenzo da Medda, 1535. No copy has been located.
Not in OO

M 29 Encomium Geometriae Math
Title given in 1562 reads ‘[habita] in Academia Platina Mediolani anno 1535’.
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2. 231-42.
OO 4.440-5.

M 30 Parafrasis super Vitruvium Math
The ‘best parts’ said in DLP 1557 to redeployed in M 81 De subtilitate and M 104 De rerum varietate.
Publication (surmised): OO 3.213-4; OO 556, 573, 608

M.31 Practica arithmetice et mensurandi singularis Math
Publication: Milan: Bernard[in]o Calusco, 1539. Superseded, in Cardano’s view, by M 37 Opus perfectum.
OO 4.3-216

M 32 De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus Med
Publication: Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1536. Revised in its second edition in 1545 by the same publisher. Reprinted as book 1 of M 142 De methodo medendi by Guillaume Rouillé of Lyon in 1565.
OO 7.203-47

M 33 De simplicium medicinarum noxa Med
Publication: Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1536. Revised and expanded in its second edition by the same publisher in 1545. Reprinted as book 2 of M 142 De methodo medendi by Guillaume Rouillé of Lyon in 1565.
OO 7.247-252

M.34 De somniis libri decem alias Somniorum Synesiorum, omnis generis insomnia explicantes libri IIII Astr
Reduced from ten to four books in 1561-2. Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562.
Modern edition: ed. and trans. Jean-Yves Boriaud, Florence: Olschki, 2008.
OO 5.593-726

M.35 Floridorum libri [1] Med
The topics of the 23 chapters cited in DLP 1557 are covered in later medical works.
Probably redeployed in other works.

M 36 De simplicibus [2] Med
Not the same as M 12 De facile parabilibus referred to in DLP 1557, and not M 144 De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus et eorum usu.
Probably redeployed in other works,

†M.37 Opus perfectum [de mathematicis] Math
A work on arithmetic inter alia, with a complex history: see Massimo Tamborini. ‘Per una storia dell’Opus Arithmeticae perfectum’, in Cardano e la tradizione dei saperi, pp. 157-90.
OO 4.303-376 (Ars magna arithmeticae) has a prooemium addressed to Filippo Archinto, linking this work with Euclid, books 7-9, which Cardano saw as pertaining to arithmetic.
Publication: see M 31 and M 69; possibly also OO 4 1-12 ‘De numerorum proprietatibus et commentaria super omnibus libris Euclidis de Elementis’, of which a MS survives in Naples, Biblioteca nazionale. In Billaine and Dupuy, which has also ‘Artis arithmeticae de integris’ (OO 10.117-28).
OO 10.117-28, OO 4.303-76; OO 4. 216-20.

M.38 De urinis [1] Med
No longer mentioned in 1550. This is not M 114 De urinis [2], which was written in 1557.
Probably destroyed, or redeployed into other works.

M 39 De vita Christi Theol
Not mentioned after 1557.
Probably destroyed after Cardano’s imprisonment by the inquisition in Bologna.

M 40 De morte [1] or De morte Christi Theol
Abandoned when the intuition came to him that he would not be able to finish the work. Not the same as M 129 Dialogus Guglielmus seu de morte.
Probably destroyed.

M 41 De purgationibus Med
Incomplete in 1557.
Possibly redeployed in book 3 of M 143 De facultatibus medeicamentorum.
Publication (surmised) OO 9.335-77

M 42 De morbo Gallico Med
Two chapters (6. De Cyna radice; 7. De Sarza parilia) were published in the expanded version of M 13 Contradicentia medica, which appeared in 1548 (see M 72, M 74)
Cited in the Wills of 1571 (8 books) and 1576 (I book).
Recorded as too damaged to print in OO 1 ē4v

M 43 Super quartam Colliget libri septem alias Collectaneorum septem Med
The material on signs and prognosis was transferred into M 13 Contradicentia medica.

M.44 De arcanis aeternitatis Phil
Partly destroyed after 1571.
Publication (of 21 chapters): OO 10.1-46

M 45 De peregrinatione trium sociorum ?Moral
No indication is given as to its subject matter. See DLP 1544, ed. Maclean, p. 135.
Destroyed soon after its composition, between 1538 and 1544

M 46 De consolatione alias Accusator Moral
Publication: Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1542; Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1544 (with M 47 De sapientia). MS in Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Fondo Sessoriano 302.
Modern edition: ed. Marialuisa Baldi, Florence: Olschki, 2019; Sulla consolazione, trans. Marialuisa Baldi, Florence: Olschki, 2021.
OO 1.588-636

M 47 De sapientia Moral
In 1576, it was not thought to be worthy to be included in the list of printed works (see above, 00).
Publication: Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1544 (with M 46 De consolatione).
Modern edition: ed. Marco Bracali, Florence: Olschki, 2008.
OO 1.492-592

M 48 De supernis Phil
DPL 1557 says that it was redeployed in De rerum varietate, presumably in book 1.
Publication (surmised): OO 3.1-26

M 49 De instrumentis Zelandinis Phil
Abandoned.

M 50 Epistolae Divers
Book 3, which contained letters from Cardano to famous men and from them to him, was destroyed before 1557, according to DLP 1557, but DLP 1562 says that some ‘Epistolae nuncupatoriae’ were printed: e.g. M 100 De oxymelitis usu in pleuritide ad Thaddeum Dunum, in Thaddaei Duni Locarnensis medici et Francisci Cigalini, Ioannisque Pauli Turriani medicorum Novocomensium clarissimorum, item Hieromymi Cardani medici et philosophi celeberrimi disputationum per epistolas liber unus (a publication not sanctioned by Cardano himself), Zürich: preface dated 1555.

M 51 Arithmantia Astr
Destroyed in or before 1557.

M 52 Quaestiones in Biblia Theol
Possibly the Indefinitorum quesitorum liber, written between 1546 and 1548, on the evidence of M 13 Contradicentia medica, 2.2.7.
Destroyed before the publication of DLP 1557.

†M 53 Grammatica graeca Schol
Publication: OO 10.72-89

M 54 De amantium consolatione Moral
A ‘libellus’ recorded as unfinished in DLP 1557. It is possible that this is the same ten-book-long work as M 61 De amore, although DLP 1544 lists them separately, and they are very different in length (M 61 is 169 folios long and can hardly be described as a ‘libellus’).
Possibly destroyed; lost

M 55 De immortalitate animorum Phil
This title is that of the first edition, but Cardano himself consistently refers to the work as De animi immortalitate. He revised the text (DLP 1562:70) and then reworked the material (M 137 Theonoston, books 3 and 5). Published by Sebastianus Gryphius in Lyon in 1545.
Modern edition: ed. José Manuel Garcia Valverde, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006.
OO 2.455-536

M 56 Liber experimentorum Med
Medical recipes. Although the manuscript is listed in the Dupuy list, Spon records in his introduction (OO 1.ê4v) his regret at not being able to locate it.
MSS in Rome, Bibliotheca Centrale Nazionale, Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa 2 & 4.

M 57 Galeni vita Moral
Incomplete in DLP 1557; not mentioned in DLP 1562
Lost

M 58 Metoposcopia Astr
Expanded into thirteen books in 1550; said to be in seven books in DVP. Naudé doubted the authenticity of one of the surviving manuscripts with this title published in 1658. Other MSS in Dresden Säachsische Landesbibliothek, British Library, Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Naples, Biblioteca nazionale, Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense.
Publication (Latin, and French, trans. Claude-Martin de Laurendière): Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1658
Not in OO

M 59 Epigrammata Moral
This work is only mentioned in DLP 1544. Chapter 50 of M 206 DVP is entitled ‘dicta familiaria’, but these are strictly not epigrams.
Possibly OO 1.48-50

M 60 Epitome Mycilli Moral
No reference to this work after 1550.
Destroyed

M 61 De amore Moral
See above M 54.
Destroyed

M 62 De quatuor linguis Phil
Listed as unfinished in DLP 1557. The comparison is briefly made in M 81 De
Subtilitate xi and in M 104 De rerum varietate [2], xv.
Possibly epitomized in OO 3.553, OO 3.337-8

M 63 Carmina Moral
Not mentioned after 1544.
Lost

M 64 Geniturae LXVII insignes casibus et fortuna, cum expositione
These works were published together with the second amended edition of M 18 and M 19 above (M 64 being an expansion of M 20).
Publication: Libelli duo: unus de supplemento Almanach, alter de restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium. Item geniturae LXVII insignes casibus et fortuna, cum expositione, Nuremberg, Joannes Petreius, 1543.
OO 5.458-502: subsumed into De exemplo centum geniturarum

M 65 Encomium astrologiae Astr
Publication: Libelli duo: unus de supplemento Almanach, alter de restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium. Item geniturae LXVII insignes casibus et fortuna, cum expositione, Nuremberg, Joannes Petreius, 1543; republished in 1547: see M 75.
OO 5.727-8

M 66 De libris propriis [1] alias Ephemerus [1] Moral
Publication: Nuremberg, Joannes Petreius, 1544; Geneva, Pierre and Jacques Chouet, 1624
Modern edition: ed. Ian Maclean, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004.
OO 1.55-9

M 67 De circulis [2] Math
Not identical to M 24; its fate is not clear; some part of it may have been deployed in other works.
Lost

M 68 Commentaria in Hippocratis Aphorismos [1] Med
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1564.
OO 8.213-302

M 69 Artis magnae sive de regulis algebraicis liber unus Math
See M 37, above.
Publication: Nuremberg, Joannes Petreius, 1545; republished 1570 with M 153 De proportionibus, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1570
Modern edition: ed. Massimo Tamborini, Milan: FrancoAngeli 2011
OO 4.221-302

M 70 Consilium pro dolore vago Med
Publication: Contradicentia medica, Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1548, appendix, pp. 473-86.
OO 9.237-44

M 71 Commentaria in artem medicam Med
MS listed in Opera medica senilia: Lyon: Laurent Durand, 1638, sig. *5r-v.
Recorded as too damaged to print in OO 1.ē4v

M 72 De sarza parilia Med
See M 42. Publication: Contradicentia medica, Lyon: Sebastianus Gryphius, 1548, appendix, pp. 465-6. Reproduced in an appendix by Auger Ferrier in his De pudendagra lue hispanica libro duo, Antwerp: Vidua Martini Nutii, 1564, ff. 43r-44r.
OO 7.271-4

M 73 Historia morbi validissimi Med
Publication: Contradicentia medica, Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1548, appendix, pp. 467-9.
OO 9.245-6

M 74 De radice cina responsum petitioni M. Antonii Maioragii [1] Med
Publication: Contradicentia medica, Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1548, appendix, pp. 470-2; reproduced in an appendix by Auger Ferrier in his De pudendagra lue hispanica libro duo, Antwerp, Vidua Martini Nutii, 1564, ff. 41r-42v.
OO 7.266-70

M 75 De iudiciis geniturarum Astr
Published together with M 65, 76, ,77, 78, 79 in Libelli quinque. Quorum duo priores, iam denuo sunt emendati, duo sequentes iam primum in lucem edidi, et quintus magna parte auctus est. I De supplemento Almanach. II de restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium. III de iudiciis geniturarum. IV De revolutionibus. V De exemplis centum geniturarum. Additis insuper Tabulis ascensionum rectarum et obliquarum eclipticae et stellarum et radiorum, usque ad latitudinem octo partium. Eiusdem, antea non edita, aphorismorum astronomicorum segmenta VII. [Astrologiae encomium], Nuremberg, Joannes Petreius, 1547.
OO 5. 433-457

M 76 De revolutionibus Astr
See M 75.
OO 5.561-575

M 77 De exemplis centum geniturarum Astr
See M 75.
OO 5.458-502

M 78 Tabulae ascensionum rectarum et obliquarum eclipticae et stellarum et radiorum, usque ad latitudinem octo partium Astr
See M 75.
OO 5. OO 5.1-14

M 79 Aphorismorum astronomicorum segmenta VII Astr
See M 75.
OO 5.29-93

M 80 Commentaria in quatuor primas doctrinas primae fen primi Avicennae alias Floridorum libri [2] Med
In Dupuy and Billaine. MS listed in Opera medica senilia: Lyon: Laurent Durand, 1638, sig. *5r.
OO 9.453-567

M 81 De subtilitate Phil
Publication: Nuremberg, Joannes Petreius, 1550; Paris: ex officina Michaelis Fezendat et Roberti Granjon, 1550; Lyon: Philibert Rollet for Guillaume Rouillé, 1550 (also with the imprint Paris, apud Mathurinum Dupuys,1551); (second revised edition) Basel: per Ludovicum Lucium, 1554, (reissued in 1560 by Heinrich Petri); Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1554, 8vo; also ibid., 1559, 8vo; Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1560.
Modern edition (of books 1-7): ed. Elio Nenci, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004. Modern translation by John M. Forrester, 2 vols, Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS, 2013.
OO 3.353-672

M 82 De secretis [1] Phil
Material redeployed in M 123 De secretis [2].

M 83 Musica Phil
Included in the scheme for a massive encyclopaedic work entitled De secretis in 1562 (M 131). According to DVP 1576, recopied and revised in 1574.
OO 10.105-116 (incomplete)

M 84 De sanitate tuenda [1] Med
Redeployed in M 185 De sanitate tuenda [2]

M 85 De praeceptis ad filios Moral
Not mentioned in 1576. Many MS in Italy (Vatican Library, Bologna Archiginnasio, Naples Bibliotheca Nazionale, Pesaro Biblioteca Oliveriana, Venice Museo Civico Correr).
Publication: Paris: Thomas Blaise, 1635, and Amsterdam: Johannes a Ravenstein, 1654.
OO 1.475-81

M 86 Tabula super Galenum Med
Possibly mentioned in Billaine (‘Tabula generalis Medicorum: Galeni, Avicennae, & caeterorum’).
Not in OO

M 87 Tabula super libros omnes qui necessariii sunt theoricae Med
Possibly mentioned in Billaine (‘Tabula generalis Medicorum: Galeni, Avicennae, & caeterorum’).
Not in OO

†*M 88 Problemata Divers
Initially in ten books: seven survive, three having possibly been destroyed after 1571. Mentioned in the all the Wills, and in DVP; to be dedicated to Gregory XIII, according to the Will of 1576. In Cocanara, Dupuy and Billaine.
OO 2.621-67

M 89 De libris propriis [2] Moral
Composed in 1550, but not referred to in DLP 1557.
Modern edition: ed. Marialuisa Baldi and Guido Canziani, Rivista di storia della filosofia, 4 (1998), 767-98; ed. Ian Maclean, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004.
Not in OO

M 90 Technae calidae alias De le burle calde Moral
Abandoned project.
Not in OO

M 91 Consilium an nocte homo hominem visu dignoscere possit Med
Said in DLP 1557 to be published.
Not located

M 92 Consilia Med
Publication: Contradicentia medica, Lyon: Sebastianus Gryphius, 1548, 4to, appendix, pp. 465-86 (M 70, 72 and 74) ; Quaedam opuscula, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559, fol., pp. 87-127 OO 9.116-23, 79-80, 178-92 (nos. 21, 13, 35: ‘de difficultate spirandi pro Hieronymo Palavicino’, ‘pro fluxu sanguine coexercendo’, ‘pro Mantuano lepram patiente’) ; Ars curandi parva,et alia nunc primum aedita opera, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566, 8vo, ii.304-497, 588-606: ‘pro difficultate spirandi datum Archiepiscopo Sancti Andreae’, ‘ventriculi dolore consilium’, ‘ad surditatem consilium’.
OO 9.125-52, 170-4, 77 (nos. 22, 29-30, 12)

M 93 Encomium Podagrae Med
Publication Ars curandi parva,et alia nunc primum aedita opera, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566, 2.666-95.
OO 1.221-5

M 94 Encomium Neronis Moral
Publication: Somniorum synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.138-231.
OO 1.179-220

M 95 Encomium Medicinae [1] Med
Possibly in Dupuy.
Publication: Quaedam opuscula, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559., pp.128-36; DVP 1576 cites both an impressum (not thought worthy of listing) and a manuscript; the Encomium Medicinae in OO is identical to the Basel text.
OO 6.1-7

M 96 Orationes in laudem eorum qui lauream susceperunt Med
Mentioned in DLP 1557 and DLP 1562.
Not in OO, presumed lost

M 97 Declaratio magnitudinis Arcae Noae Phil
No mention of this work after DLP 1562, where it figures on a list of incomplete works.
Not in OO, presumed lost

M 98 Tabula alias Tituli classicorum auctorum Schol
Some of Cardano’s synoptic (presumably broadsheet) tables produced for pedagogical purposes are listed in Dupuy and Billaine, but not this one.
Not in OO, presumed lost

M 99 Tabulae Hippocratis MedNot in OO, presumed lost

M 100 De oxymelitis usu in pleuritide ad Thaddeum Dunum Med
Publication: Thaddaei Duni Locarnensis medici et Francisci Cigalini, Ioannisque Pauli Turriani medicorum Novocomensium clarissimorum, item Hieromymi Cardani medici et philosophi celeberrimi disputationum per epistolas liber unus, Zürich, preface dated 1555.
OO 7.274

M 101 In Cl. Ptolemaei de astrorum iudiciis AstrPublication: In Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis IIII de Astrorum iudiciis [...] libros commentaria [...], Basel: Henricus Petri, 1554: reprinted Lyon, Thibaud Payen,1555.
OO 5.93-368

M 102 XII Geniturarum exemplares Astr Publication: In Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis IIII de Astrorum iudiciis [...] libros commentaria [...], Basel: Henricus Petri, 1554: reprinted Lyon: Thibaud Payen,1555.
OO 5.503-552

M 103 De Interrogationibus et Electionibus Astr Publication: In Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis IIII de Astrorum iudiciis [...] libros commentaria [...] praeterea Geniturarum XII exempla, Basel: Henricus Petri, 1554; reprinted Lyon, Thibaud Payen, 1555.
OO 5.553-560

M 104 De rerum varietate [2] Phil
Incorporates material from previous abandoned writings: M 24-6, M 30, M 48, M 62. Cardano says in DLP 1562:70 that his personal copy of the text was ‘castigatum et multis in locis superauctum’; in DVP 1576:246 he describes the work as ‘reliquiae librorum de Subtilitate, quae non potui ordinare nec castigare ob multitudinem negociorum’.
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557, fol. and 8vo; Avignon:, Mathieu Vincent, 1558, 8vo (a pirated edition)
OO 3.1-351

M 105 Fabulae Moral
Expanded to four hundred stories, divided into three books, some time before 1562.
Lost

M 106 De aqua Phil
Publication: Quaedam opuscula, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559, fol, pp. 1-55 (de aqua).
OO 2.570-600

M 107 De vitali aqua seu de aethere Phil
Publication: Quaedam opuscula, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559, fol, pp. 1-55 (de aqua), pp. 55-78 (de vitali aqua seu de aethere).
OO 2.601-614

M 108 Αλήθεια, alias De dedicatione alias De vita alias Eremita Phil
Subsumed into M 137 Theonoston alias Hyperboraeum libri.
2.299-454

M 109 De libris propriis [3] Divers
Publication: Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1557, 8vo, pp. 1-121.
Modern edition: ed. Ian Maclean, Florence: Olschki, 2004.
OO 1.60-82

M 110 De curationibus mirabilibus [1] Med
Accompanies the text of DLP 1557; revised versions appear in 1562 and 1565 (M 128 and M 143). Chap. 40 of the De propria vita (OO 1.31-4) is also devoted to astonishing cures.
Publication: Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé 1557, 8vo, pp. 121-92.
OO 1.82-95

M 111 Actio in Thessalicum Medicum Med
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.258-77.
OO 1.169-78; in the list of contents in OO 1 it is wrongly said to be in OO 8.

M 112 Oratio in laudem Collegium Mediolanensem Med
Lost

M 113 Ars curandi parva Med
May be a revised version of M 35.
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566
OO 7.143-99

M 114 De urinis [2] Med
Not connected with M 38. According to DLP 1562, in four books.
OO 7.109-42 (incomplete)

M 115 De cyna radice seu de decoctis Med
See M 42. A text written after M 72.
Publication: Quaedam opuscula, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559. pp. 79-86.
OO 7.266-70

M 116 In calumniatorem librorum de subtilitate actio [prima] Phil
Publication: Quaedam opuscula, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559, pp.137-210
OO 3. 673-713

M 117 Dialectica [1] Schol
Publication: Ars curandi parva, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.1003-93.
OO 1.291-308

M 118 In septem Aphorismorum Hippocratis particulas commentaria Med
Said to be in publishable form in DLP 1562:70.
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1564, 4to.
OO 8.213-580

M 119 De utilitate ex adversis capienda [1] Moral previously M 126
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1561.
OO 2.1-282

M 120 Hymni alias Hymnus Theol previously M 127
Publication OO 1.695-701

M 121 De curationibus et praedictionibus admirandis [2] Med previously M 129
A new version of M 110; See also M 144.
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.118-37.
OO .7.253-64 (as book 3 of M 144)

M 122 De uno Phil previously M 130
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.243-58
OO 1.277-83

M 123 De secretis [2] Divers previously M 131
An encyclopedia including many other works, including M 3, 16, 27, 37, 83, 85, 117, 127, 132, 136, and portions of M 81 and M 104. DLP 1562 refers to Liber quartus; the publication refers to Liber primus.
Publication: book 1, Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.278-307. Modern edition: ed. Davide Gravina, Milan, Dr. Diss., 2012-13.
OO 2.537-557

M 124 De gemmis et coloribus Phil previously M 132
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.308-43
OO 2.552-69

M 125 Tetim seu de humana conditione Med previously M 133
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562 2.379-92.
OO 1.666-72

M 126 De minimis et propinquis Moral previously M 134
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.393-403.
OO 1.691-4

M 127 De summo bono Moral previously M 135
Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.403-13.
OO 1.583-7

M 128 De nodis Phil previously M 136
Lost

M 129 Guglielmus sive de Morte [2] Moral previously M 137
Same sub-title as M 40. Publication: Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich
Petri, 1562, 2.244-379.
OO 1.673-89

†M 130 De rebus naturalibus libri 5 alias De natura [1] Phil previously M 139
Listed with M 131 and M 132 in DLP 1562.
Its incipit (‘Dei faciendo generatio’) is not present in the possible revision M 189.
Possibly OO 2.283-98

M 131 De rebus supernaturalibus libri 2 Phil previously M 140
Listed with M 130 and M 132 in DLP 1562.
Probably destroyed after 1571.

M 132 De rebus moralibus libri 3 Moral previously M 141
Listed with M 130 and M 131 in DLP 1562.There is mention of a MS ‘De moribus’ in DVP, and ‘politica seu moralis’ in Cocanaro and Billaine.
Possibly OO 10. 47-71 (book 3 only)

M 133 De libris propriis [4] previously M 142
Publication Somniorum Synesiorum [...] libri iiii, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1562, 2.1-116.
Modern edition: ed. Ian Maclean, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004.
OO 1.96-150

M 134 Methodus medendi [2] previously M 144
As the publisher (Rouillé) notes in his preface, this is not a new work but a composite volume made up of previously published books, in some cases revised. Books 1 and 2 are versions of M 32 and M 33; book 3 is a reprint of M 129; book 4 contains a number of new consilia together with some already published (see M 92). Publication: Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1565.
OO 7.199-264; (books 1-3); OO 9.47-246 (book 4: consilia)

†M 135 In Mundini anatomen 1561-6 MS Med previously M 128
Not mentioned in the Wills or DVP. In Billaine. Cardano’s contribution to anatomical studies post Vesalius. Previously listed as M 128.
Publication: OO 10.129-168

†M 136 Contradicentium medicorum libri [2] 1560-76 MS Med
Mentioned in the Wills of 1560 (books 3,4 and 5), 1566 (12 books ‘sed imperfecti’), 1571(nearly finished), 1576 (5 books, for dedication to Cardinal Borromeo) and DVP (acknowledging some reworking).
In Cocanaro, Dupuy, Billaine.
OO 1.ê4v says that two books are ‘too damaged to print’; two books ‘already published, but expanded’, and a further eight books that were printed from MS.
OO 6.655-923

†*M 137 Theonoston[2] 4-5 alias Hyperboraeorum libri [2] 1561-1576 MS Divers
Mentioned in DVP, Cocanaro, Dupuy, and Billaine
According to the dedicatory epistle to M 113 Ars curandi parva OO 7.144, bks 4 and 5 were written ‘diffuse’. OO 1.360 suggests that 6 books were already complete before his departure from Pavia. Cardano says in DLP 1562 that he replaced a work called ‘De vita’ with another moral tract in dialogue form consisting of six books, entitled Eremita seu Theonoston, which is set out as follows:
1. De solitariae vitae commodis
2. De animi, corporisque tranquillitate
3. De contemplatione ac studiis artium et disciplinarum
4. De animi immortalitate (written to replace M 55 De immortalitate animorum)
5. Praeclarum somnium, ad Ciceronis atque Plutarchi imitationem
6. Instituta de innocentia, sanctitate, religione, beataque ac virtute plena in hoc mundo vita
In the MSS lists of Cocanaro and Dupuy, there is reference to ‘Theonoston seu Hyperboreorum libri tres’ [books 2,3, and 4]; Billaine lists also book 1 (‘De solitariae vitae commendatione’) and possibly book 5, entitled in OO ‘Liber quintus Theonoston seu Hyperboraeorum De vita et felicitate animorum post obitum’); all five are printed by Spon:
1. De tranquillitate OO 2.299-371
2. De vita producenda et incolumnitate corporis conservanda OO 2.372-402
3. De animi immortalitate OO 2.403-433
4. De contemplatione OO 2.433-447
5. De vita et felicitate animorum post obitum OO 2.448-54.
In DVP 1576 there is a reference to two books of ‘Hyperboraeorum’ under ‘scripti physici’, and an ambiguous remark later in the text suggests that they replaced Theonoston (‘libros Hyperboreorum loco Theognoston’): this is understood by Boriaud as Theonoston replacing libri Hyperboreorum, but the chronology suggests the reverse, and the syntax can be construed thus. Book 2 of Cocanaro’s edition of Theonoston in 1617 is entitled ‘De vita producenda atque incolumnitate corporis conservanda dialogus’ (see also M 84 and DLP 1562:48, where book 23 of M 123 is entitled ‘Vitae producendae’); it may have been written in response to Alvise Cornaro’s Della vita sobria of 1558. It postdates M 185 De sanitate tuenda (see OO 2.378). On this, see Nancy Siraisi, The Clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997 pp. 70-92.
Why Cardano chose the alternative title ‘Hyperboreorum libri’ is not clear, unless it refers to the myth that paradise is at the North Pole. DLP 1562:70 refers to the text as incomplete. MS in Vatican Library (‘lib.11’), Fondo Vaticano Latino 5849.
Publication: Theonoston, seu de vita producenda atque incolumitate corporis conservanda dialogus, ed. Fabritio Cocanaro, Rome, Joannes Baptista Roblettus, 1617.
OO 2.299-454

†M 138 Paralipomena 1561-1576; [see also below M 149] 1561-76 MS
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 (28 books), 1571 (29 books), 1576 (6 books) and DVP (6 books). De clarorum virorum libris is listed separately. In
Cocanaro, Dupuy, Billaine. Cocanaro has full list of chapters of each of the books of Paralipomena. Book 16 in the Dupuy list reads ‘De hominum clarorum libris editis, et amissis elencus’; Cocanaro records a Book 17 ‘De hominum clarorum vitis’, which may be the same text; of this the ‘Vita Ludovici Ferrarij, et Alciati’ are to be found in OO 9.568-9, 569-70, but the ‘Andreae Vessalij vita’ and a ‘Virorum catalogus’ have been lost.
This is a broad survey of natural philosophy, natural and human history, begun in 1561. Its title signifies ‘things omitted’. In De propria vita, it is said to consist in recycled material (‘servat[um] ex veteri ruina’). Cardano did not know in 1562 how many books it would comprise (OO 1.119). In the MS lists of both Cocanaro and Dupuy, 20 books are listed (the Cocanaro titles are recorded first, with the Dupuy variants: Naudé, De propria vita, * 5r-v has Dupuy titles). OO has 18 books:
1. De humanis civilibus [Dupuy: conversationibus] (OO De humanis civilibus successionibus)
2. De humana perfectione
3. De mirabilibus [Dupuy: De portentis] (OO peri thaumaston, seu de admirandis)
4. De dubiis naturalibus
5. De rebus factis raris, et admirandis [Dupuy and OO: artificiis]
6. De humana compositione [Dupuy and OO add: naturalium]
7. De mirabilibus [Dupuy: mortalibus] morbis, et symptomatibus]
8. De interpretatione difficilium dictorum (not in OO ; listed by Naudé)
9. [Dupuy:10] De astrorum, ac temporum ratione, et divisionibus
10. [Dupuy: 9] De Mathematicis quaesitis
11. Historiae lapidum, metallicorum [word omitted in Dupuy] et metallorum
12. Historiae animalium
13. Historiae plantarum
14. De anima
15. De dubiis ex historia
16. De hominum antiquorum illustrium iudicio [not in Dupuy]
17. De hominum clarorum vitis [Dupuy 16: De hominum clarorum libris editis, et amissis elencus] the Will of [1576 has a MS De clarorum virorum libris]
18. [Dupuy: 17] De illustribus viris huius temporis OO combines 16 and 17.
19. [Dupuy: 18] De dubiis circa opinionem hominum, seu de his quae videntur, et non sunt
[Dupuy 19 and OO: De usu hominum, et dignat[io]ne [sic] operum cum cura et errore]
20. De sapiente
Cocanaro 17 lists ‘Vita Ludovici Ferrarij, et Alciati’ (separately printed in OO 9.568-9, 569-70) together with ‘Andreae Vessalij vita’ and a ‘Virorum catalogus’: these latter two elements seem to have been lost. Billaine has the OO list with the addition of Dupuy, books 8 and 18. The reference to 6 books only in the lists of DVP and the Will of 1576 is puzzling, as 18 now survive. M 177 Actus contains some extracts from ‘Paralipomena lib. 20’ which is not the Book 20 of the Cocanaro collection, and which I have not been able to locate in OO.
OO 10.429-585

†*M 139 De clarorum virorum [vitis et] libris 1561-76 MS Moral previously M 171
Mentioned in DVP and the Will of 1576, and listed separately (for dedication to Gregory XIII).
See above, M 138.
OO 10.550-61

†M 140 De naturalibus viribus later than 1560 MS Phil
Not specifically mentioned in Billaine.
It contains references to the recent deaths of pope Paul V (d. 1559) and Luca Gaurica (d. 6 March 1558). On demons and visions: it begins in medias res, and may be part of a dialogue.
There is a reference to Jean-Loys Micqueau, Aureliae urbis memorabilis ab Anglis obsidio, anno 1428. Et Joanne viraginis Lotharingae res gestae, Paris, 1560.
OO 10.1 100-4

M 141 Conclusiones de xxx erroribus Galeni in expositione Aphorismorum Hippocratis Med
A work circulated in MS in Pavia on 28 June 1561, transcribed by Cardano’s Pavia colleague Andrea Camuzio in his Disputationes, quibus Hieronymi Cardani … Conclusiones infirmantur …, Pavia : apud Hieronymum Bartolum, 1563, sig. *5r-8v. Spon announced its publication in OO.1 Elenchus generalis, Tomus octavus : ‘Conclusiones de Lapidibus Galeni in explicatione Aphorismorum’, to be followed by Cardano’s Apologia ad Andream Camutium, but neither work appeared.
Not in OO

M 142 De dentibus summer 1562 MS Med previously M 162
Mentioned in all the Wills and DVP; for dedication to Cardinal Morone; mentioned as ‘six books’ in Rodolfo Silvestri’s edition of Cardano’s De sanitate tuenda (Rome : Zanetti, 1580, a2v).
Published in 1638 from a manuscript owned by Cardinal Lelio Biscia in a collection entitled
Opera medica senilia, Lyon: Laurent Durand, 1638, pp. 1-51; on this publication, see Cerbu, ‘Naudé as editor’, pp. 368-70.
OO 9. 247-265

M 143 De rationali curandi ratione 1562-5 MS Med previously M 163
The second part of De dentibus, according to OO 9.247. Published in Opera medica senilia, pp. 52-213.
OO 9.265-313

M 144 De facultatibus medicamentorum alias De simplicibus [3] 1562-5 MS Med previously M 164
In Dupuy and Billaine.
Another part of De dentibus, according to Cardano, OO 9.247. Published in Opera medica senilia, pp. 214-431.
OO 9.313-377

M 145 De conscribendis libris 1562-5 MS Divers
Mentioned in all the Wills and DVP.
A putative summary is found in M 204 Norma vita consarcinata, sacra vocata, OO 1.344, and a further reference to the contents in M 196 De inventione, OO 10.91.
Not in OO

†M 146 De orthographia 1562-6 MS Divers
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1571 only, and in all of the lists of Cocanaro, Dupuy, and Billaine. It may be linked with the passages in other works which deal with proof-reading, and with M 53 Grammatica Graeca (Elementa linguae Graecae, OO 10. 72-89). It is not listed in the Will of 1576 or DVP, presumably because Cardano considered it to be a basic pedagogical tool with a targeted readership of ‘pueri et adolescentes’.
Modern edition: ed. Rafaele Passarella, in Cardano e la tradizione dei Saperi, ed. Baldi and Canziani, pp. 515-618.
OO 1.247-61

M 147 De astrorum iudiciis epitome 1562-6 MS Astr
Mentioned in the Will of 1566.
Cf. M 198 In Cl. Ptolemaei de astrorum iudiciis commentaria: his access[it] de septem erraticarum stellarum qualitatibus atque viribus liber posthumus ante non visus, Basel ex officina Henricpetrina, 1578, fol.
Not in OO

M 148 Proxeneta between 1562 and 1571 MS Moral previously M 174
Mentioned in all the Wills and DVP. The title of the MS in the Vatican Library Fondo Ludovisi-Boncompagni 1.50 is ’De homine eiusque operationibus tractatus politico-moralis’. The dating is given by Mauricio Jalón in Cardano e la tradizione dei Saperi, pp. 365-6; see also Luigi Guerrini in Bruniana et Campanelliana, 7 (2001-2), 381-412. There is a reference to M 176 Promptuarius (OO 1.437).
Publication: Leyden, ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1627, 12mo.
OO 1.355-474

M 149 De providentia ex anni constitutione [1] P Med previously M 143
This text was composed and published in Bologna, dedicated to Cardinal Marco Antonio Amulio, and dated 7 March 1563. It appears as ‘De aëris constitutione’ in DVP and the Will of 1576; medicine is a more appropriate category than that to which Spon assigned it (‘astronomica, astrologica, onirocritica’).
Publication: Bologna, Alessandro Benaccio, 1563; reprinted as an adjunct to M 118 as the Liber de Providentia temporum, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1564, cols. 1039-72.
OO 5.15-29

M 150 Exhortatio ad bonas artes dated 24 April 1563 P Moral previously M 151
Mentioned in all the Will of 1576 (‘materna lingua‘) and DVP, ch. 45 (Boriaud, p. 285). The title is identical to a work by Galen (referred to in OO 9.477) that was translated by Erasmus into Latin and published in Paris and Basel in 1526. Dedicated to Conte Nicolò Lodovigo, Decano dell’illustre Reggimento di Bologna. See Danilo Zardin in Cardano e la tradizione dei Saperi, pp. 281-306.
Publication: [Italian] Lettera nella quale tutti i giovani alla virtú e allo studio delle piú lodevoli discipline mirabilmentie eshorta, Bologna, Alessandro Benaccio, 1563.
Not in OO

M 151 De venenis completed by 9 July 1563 P Med previously M 155
Mentioned in the Will of 1576 and DVP.
A related MS may be Billaine M 218 Signa propinati veneni et alia de venenis.
Publication: De venenorum differentiis viribus et adversus ea remediorum praesidiis: ac praesertim de Pestis generibus omnibus praeservatione et cura libri III, [running head: De venenis] Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1564, cols 853-1038 as an adjunct to M 118 In septem Aphorismorum particulas commentaria. Reprinted by Paulus Frambottus of Padua in 1653.
OO 7.275-355

M 152 Apologia in Camutium completed by 8 January 1564 P Med previously M 154
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1576, and DVP. See above, M 141. Spon announced the publication both of M 141 and this work in OO.1 Elenchus generalis, Tomus octavus: ‘Conclusiones de Lapidibus Galeni in explicatione Aphorismorum’, but neither work appeared there. On this exchange, see Nancy Siraisi, The Clock and the mirror, p. 68. Publication; ‘Apologia ad Andream Camutium’, in M 113 Ars curandi parva,et alia nunc primum aedita opera, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566, 2.696-720.
not in OO

M 153 De proportionibus 1562-8 P Math previously M 148
One section of M 37 is entitled De proportionibus. The work may contain the material ‘de ponderis et umbris’ from M 23. Mentioned in the Will of 1576 and DVP, which dates the work to 1568.
Publication: Opus novum de proportionibus numerorum, motuum, ponderum, sonorum, aliarumque rerum mensurandarum, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1570.
OO 4.463-603

M 154 Regula Aliza 1562-8 P Math previously M 149
DLP 1550 records that the tenth book of the planned M 37 would be ‘supra quadratum cum regula Aliza’. Mentioned in all the Wills of 1566 and 1576, and DVP, which dates the work to 1568.
Publication: De Aliza regula libellus, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1570, fol., part 3.
OO 4.376-432

M 155 In septem Aphorismorum Hippocratis particulas epitome
Mentioned in the Will of 1566: ‘alias impressi (referring to M 118) sed nunc redacti in epithomen foliorum 60’.
Not in OO

†M 156 Commentarii in libros Epidemiorum Hippocratis. Commentarii duo in secundum Hippocratis [Epidemiorum] librum 1565-6 MS Med previously M 125
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1576 and DVP; for dedication to Morone.
As part of the Hippocrates project, lectures given in 1565-6: see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n. A MS of the Commentary on book 2 is in the Vatican Library, Fondo Vaticano Latino 5848. In Dupuy and Billaine.
OO 1 ē4v: books 3 and 4 ‘too damaged to print’.
OO 10.168-387 (a fragment)

M 157 In Hippocratis Coi prognostica, opus divinum [...] in Galeni prognosticorum expositionem, commentarii absolutissimi 1565-6 MS Med previously M 119
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1576, and DVP. Dupuy and Billaine record a MS. As part of the Hippocrates project, lectures given in 1565-6; see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n. It contains a list of books that Cardano wanted to see revised or published in (OO 8.799).
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1568.
OO 8.581-806

M 158 In Hippocratis Prorrhetica 1565-6 MS Med
Mentioned in the Will of 1566.
Part of the Hippocrates project.
Possibly in Billaine, ‘Opuscula medica’.
OO 1.ē4v: recorded as too damaged to print

M 159 Antigorgias dialogus, seu de recta vivendi ratione [1] before 1566 P Moral previously M 145.
In the Will of 1566 ‘apud Henricum Petri ut imprimatur’ . In DVP listed one of the ‘impressi quos non connumero’. A dialogue ‘de recta vivendi ratione’ with Socrates, Chaerophon, Gorgias, Polus, and Callidus as interlocutors.
Publication: Ars curandi parva,et alia nunc primum aedita opera, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566, 2.1190-1342.
OO 1.641-66

M 160 Hyperchen, divinum opus before 1566 Phil previously M 146
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, DVP and Paralipomena, OO 10.443.
Naudé, De vita propria, a8v adds ‘seu quod necesse est’ to the title and classifies it under philosophy.
Publication; Ars curandi parva,et alia nunc primum aedita opera, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566, 2.1095-1143.
OO 1.284-90

M 161 De Socratis studio before 1566 P Moral previously M 147
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1576, and DVP.
Publication Ars curandi parva,et alia nunc primum aedita opera, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566, 2.1144-89.
OO 1.151-8

M 162 De cura morbi regii 1566 MS Med previously M 165
Part of De dentibus: ‘anno MDLXVI cum Franciscum ex morbo regio curandum suscepissem […] addidi et quartum librum’ (OO 9.247); published in Opera medica senilia pp. 432-531.
OO 9. 377-407

M 163 Consiliorum secundus 1566-70 P Med previously M 156
Mentioned in DVP; could be identified as the set published with M 181. Commentarii in Hippocratis de aëre, aquis et locis opus: ‘pro quodam theologo’; ‘pro illus. D Fabrotio Austriaco Corrego Principe’; ‘pro Card. S. Clementis’. Presumably sent to Basel in 1569.
Not in OO

M 164 Experimenta 1566-76 MS Med
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1571. In Dupuy.
MS in Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale Rome.
OO 1.ē4 says it is a lost work

M 165 Dialectica [2] 1566-76 MS Phil
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1576, and DVP (where the work is described as incomplete and containing errors). On the surviving MS in the Vatican library showing Cardano’s revisions, see Schülze in Cardano le opere, le fonti la vita, p. 148. According to the dedicatory epistle to M 113 Ars curandi parva, it ‘lacks a section on Plotinus’ (OO 7.144). Ms in Vatican Library Fondo Vaticano Latino 5851.
Not in OO

M 166 De causis, signis et locis morborum 1566-9 P Med previously M 152
Mentioned in the Will of 1576 and DVP. Recommended medical reading in M 186 De morbis articularibus (OO 9.452). There is a holograph MS in PBN Lat 7108, which is a revised version, and another MS in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale.
Publication: De causis, signis et locis morborum, Bologna, Alessandro Benaccio, 1569: ‘vindicatus’, but not with Cardano’s additions, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1582.
OO 7.65-108

M 167 In libros Hippocratis de septimestri et octimestri partu et simul in eorum Galeni commentaria, Cardani commentaria before 1568 P Med previously M 120
Mentioned in the Wills of 1566 and 1576, and in DVP.
Part of the Hippocrates project; lectures given before 1568; see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n.
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1568.
OO 9.1-36 (De septimestro partu commentaria is included; the promised De octimestri partu commentaria is not).

M 168 Flosculus Dialogus 1566-71 MS Divers previously M 176
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and DVP.
Not in OO

M 169 De infelicitate 1566-71 MS Moral
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, but not in DVP.
Possibly destroyed in 1573.
Not in OO

M 170 Institutio 1566-71 MS Divers
Mentioned in the Will of 1571.
Possibly destroyed in 1573.
Not in OO

M 171 De providentia [2] 1566-71 MS Moral
Mentioned as a MS in the Will of 1571 consisting of ‘libri 2 perfecti’: so it is not M 228 De prudentia eximia et artificiosa, which is also in two books, but which is incomplete and contains references to Cardano’s life after 1571.
Not in OO

M 172 Triceps 1566-67 P Med previously M 153
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and DVP. On bad and good medical practice, with reference to some of his own cases. Thomas Cerbu in Bruniana et Campanelliana, 7 (2001-2), 508 dates the work to 1566-7, but without citing evidence.
Publication: Oratio ad I. Alciatum Cardinalem sive Tricipitis Geryonis aut Cerberi canis, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1570, as an adjunct to M 182 Commentarii in Hippocratis de aёre, aquis et locis
OO 1.159-68
Not in OO

M 173 περί ἀιώρωv και βαθέωv 1566-72 MS Med
Mentioned as one book in the Wills of 1571 and 1576.
MS accompanying M 174 and M 175, consisting of 57 ‘quaesita’.
Recommended medical reading in M 186 De morbis articularibus OO 9.452.
MS in Bibliotheca Centrale Nazionale, Rome Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa 1 (pp. 155-202),
not in OO

M 174 Quaestiones difficiles et mirabiles alias Dubia Med
It seems reasonable to suppose that the reference to Dubiorum liber 1 in the Will of 1576 is to the MS accompanying M 173 as ‘liber tertius’, consisting of 47 sections.
MS in Bibliotheca Centrale Nazionale, Rome, Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa 1, pp. 203-81.
Not in OO

M 175 Succidaneorum li[ber] 1 1566-71 MS Med
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576.
Probably a medical book: Galen wrote a De succedaneis (K 19.721-47) on substitute medicines ‘quae in aliorum locum succedunt’. Plausibly the missing ‘quartus liber’ of M 176, consisting in an alphabetical list of about 200 components of materia medica.
MS in Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale, Rome Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa 1, pp. 289-91(list of contents only).
Not in OO

*M 176 Manuarius alias Promptuarius alias Actuarius 1566-76 MS Med previously M 168
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP, where it is said to be a compendium of all medicine in four books. The surviving MS (in one book) consists of 166 chapters, and has appended to it M 173, M 174, and plausibly M 175 (M 175 and 176 listed separately in the Will of 1571, and M 173, 174 and 175 listed separately in the Will of 1576).
Recommended medical reading in M 186 De morbis articularibus OO 9.452. It is said to be a ‘libellus’ in the Will of 1571, to consist in four books in DVP, and three in the Will of 1576. The surviving MS in Rome consists of four books (M 177 missing, present only as a list of contents). Three of these books seem to be listed separately in the Will of 1576 (two are mentioned in the Will of 1571 separately). The donor of the MS was ‘D. Nicolaus de Resta’: there are mentions of this family in other works (see OO 1.3.88, 92).
MS in Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale, Rome Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa 1, pp. 1-154.
Not in OO

*M 177 Actus 1566-76 MS Med Moral previously M 167
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP. Recommended medical reading in M 186 De morbis articularibus (OO 9.452). A selection from previous writings (M 140 Paralipomena, M 182 In Librum Hippocratis de Alimento Commentarius, M 148 Proxeneta), with possibly some linking passages (I could not locate the selection from Proxeneta) or some paraphrases. MSS in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana D 256 inf 11.48.11, and the Vatican Library Fondo Vaticano Latino 5851, which begins with a holograph sheet referring to De proportionibus Proposition 170 on ‘dupla proportio’.
Not in OO

M 178 Vita sanctorum alias Vita B. Martini cum dispunctionibus 1566-71 MS Theol previously M 170
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP (Vita B Martini cum dispunctionibus).
Not in OO

M 179 Geometria nova [2] 1568 MS Math
Mentioned in all the Wills and in DVP.
OO 1.ē4v records it as too badly damaged to print.

M 180 Commentarii in Hippocratis de aëre, aquis et locis opus 1568-9 P Med previously M 121
Mentioned in the Will of 1576 and DVP. Part of Hippocrates project ; lectures given in 1568-9: see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n. Contains (1) three consilia: (see above M 163: ‘pro quodam theologo’; ‘pro illus. D Fabrotio Austriaco Corrego Principe’; ‘pro Card. S. Clementis’); (2) ‘Tabula lectionum et commentatiorum omnium in Lib. Hipp. quam D. Hier. Cardanus ipse fecit’ (3) De fulgure, attributed to Cardano’s son Giovanni Battista.
Publication: Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1570.
OO 8.1-212

M 181 Consiliorum tertius 1569-76 MS Med previously M 157
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and DVP. The second group of Consilia appeared in 1566. Does not contain the Cesena Consilia (PBN Lat 7069) or ‘Consilium medicum pro Marchione quodam’ (BL 1392 ff. 37-9).
Naudé. ‘Iudicium’, *2r-v gives a full list of Consilia from various sources.
OO 9 47-236 ‘Consilia varia partim edita partium hactenus anecdota’ may contain some of these.

*M 182 In librum Hippocratis de Alimento commentaria 1568-9 P Med previously M 122
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP. Part of Hippocrates project; lectures given in 1568-9: see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n
Publication: Rome, Haeredes Antonii Bladii, 1574.
OO 7.356-575

†M 183 Commentaria in libros Hippocratis de victu in acutis 1569 MS Med previously M 123
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576 (for dedication to Cardinal Pier Donato Cesi), and in DVP. Part of Hippocrates project ; lectures given in 1569: see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n. In Cocanaro, Dupuy and Billaine. MS in Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa, 11.
Listed in the preface to Opera medica senilia.
OO 10.168-192 (incomplete)

M 184 De carcere Dialogus 1570-1 MS Moral previously M 175
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP.
For the dating, see Eugenio di Rienzo, in Cardano, le opere, le fonti, la vita, pp. 393-408.
Modern edition: Carcer, ed. Marialuisa Baldi, Guido Canziani, and Eugenio di Rienzi, Florence: Olschki, 2014.
Not in OO

*M 185 De sanitate tuenda [2] 1570-76 MS Med
Mentioned in all the Wills, and in DVP: to be dedicated to Gregory XIII. Not written to the plan of M 84 De tuenda sanitate [1]. Incomplete in 1571. Siraisi, Clock and mirror, p. 70, states that diet in health became a preoccupation after he composed the Hippocratic commentaries M 182 and M 183. Recommended medical reading in M 186 De morbis articularibus, OO 9.452.
Publication: ed. Rodulphus Sylvestrius, Rome, Franciscus Zanettus, 1580, fol.
OO 6.8-294

†M 186 De morbis articularibus 1571-2 MS Med previously M 166
Mentioned in the Will of 1571, and in DVP: not separately listed in the Will of 1576. The reading list it contains helps to establish the date (OO 9.452). In Dupuy
Billaine records it as a MS; attached by Spon to Opera medica senilia (see M 142),
OO 9. 407-452

*M 187 Antigorgias [2] a late work MS Moral
Mentioned in DVP.
Presumably a new version of M 159, which caused Cardano to repudiate the previous version.
Not in OO

M 188 Castigationes in libros suos 1571-3 MS Divers
Mentioned as ‘Liber emendationum’ in the Will of 1576; not listed, but mentioned as
‘[Liber] expunctionum’ in DVP. Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 325n gives date of completion as 1573; see also Eugenio di Rienzi, ‘Cardaniana’. Listed by Cocanaro and Billaine: there are surviving MSS in the Vatican Library in Rome, Fondo Ottoboniano Latino 2173, and in Biblioteca dell’Accademia Rubiconia del Filopatridi, Savignano, cod. 47.
Not in OO

†M 189 De natura [2] 1571-6 MS Phil
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP; to be dedicated to ‘alicui generoso principi cui forsan possent esse usui liber’. In Cocanaro, Dupuy and Billaine. Probably a revision of M 130 De rebus moralibus. A MS survives in the Vatican Library (in a group with M 88 Problemata, M 203 De optimo vitae genere and Dialogo tra l’autore et suo padre, Fondo Ludovisi-Boncompagni I.51).
OO 2.283-98

†M 190 De moribus 1571-6 MS Moral
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP ; for dedication to Cardinal Pier Donato Cesi. Possibly a reworking of M 132 De rebus moralibus, presumably after 1571.
OO 10.1 66-71 (a fragment entitled Politices seu moralium liber unus (‘caetera desunt’).

M 191 De secretis [3] 1571-6 MS Phil
Mentioned in all the Wills, and in DVP.
The Contradicentium medicorum libri, Paris 1564 BNF T3188 e4v [4] fol. 56 has a reference to a much longer ‘libellus secretorum’.
Not in OO

†M 192 De urinis [2] 1571-6 MS Med
Mentioned in all the Wills, and in DVP : for dedication to Cardinal Morone.
OO 7.109-42

M 193 De lue Indica 1571-6 MS Med
Mentioned in the Wills of 1571 and 1576, and in DVP. Could be an early work.
Not in OO (in too bad a state to be printed).

M 194 Metoposcopia [2] 1571-6 MS Med
Mentioned in all the Wills, and in DVP.
The incipit is not that of the 1658 Laurendière edition in 13 books printed by Thomas Jolly.
Naudé doubts the authenticity, and suggests Magini as a possible author.
Not in OO

M 195 Vita B Virginis 1571-6 MS Theol previously M 169
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP.
Not in OO

†*M 196 De inventione 1571-6 MS Divers previously M 172
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP under ‘diversorum argumentorum’. The title is the same as that of Cicero, but the content is explicitly different (OO 10.93).
Publication: OO 10.90-99

M 197 De septem erratic[arum] stellarum [qualitatibus et] viribus 1571-6 [P] Astr previously M 150
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP, where it is recorded as already published ; but the first printing occurs posthumously in the 1578 edition of In Cl. Ptolemaei de astrorum iudiciis commentaria: his access[it] de septem erraticarum stellarum qualitatibus atque viribus liber posthumus ante non visus, Basel: ex officina Henricpetrina, 1578, fol.
OO 5.369-432

*M 198 De usu Ephemeridum seu inventionis novae 1571-6 MS Astr previously M 177
In supersession of earlier astrological works. Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in chapter 39 of DVP, where Cardano claims to have only begun to understand this part of astrology in his 71st year.
Not in OO

†*M 199 Memorialis alias Mnemosynon 1571-6 MS Divers previously M 159
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP. Contains a reference to ‘undecimo sexto [sic] Cal Feb 1574’ with apparent ref to the deaths of two ‘pueri musici’ (OO 1.244).
De ordine liber (Argelati, CIC) as Ambrosiana ‘manoscritto in fogl. Segnato H. No. 162, p. 102’ now H 71) is a surviving MS.
OO 1.226-45

M 200 De habitatione Romae 1571-6 MS Med previously M 161
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP.
Not in OO

M 201 Medicinae encomium [2] MS Med
Mentioned in DVP as a rejected published text and a manuscript.
Dupuy lists a MS.
Not in OO

†M 202 De musica [2] 1574 MS Mus
Mentioned in all the Wills, and in DVP: for dedication to Gregory XIII. It could be the revision of a much earlier work. In Dupuy and Billaine. Naudé ‘Iudicium’, *4v refers to the MS in the Vatican Library Fondo Vaticano Latino 5850.
OO 4. 621-30

†*M 203 De optimo vitae genere: Dialogus Hieronymi Cardani et Facii Cardani patris 1574 MS Moral previously M 158
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP. In Cocanaro, Dupuy, Billaine; the Dialogus is said to be the last book of the De optimo vitae genere.
OO 1.482-9; OO 1.637-40.

†M 204 Norma vitae consarcinata, sacra vocata: Dialogus Cardani et Pendasii 1574-6 MS Moral previously M 178
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP (under the rubric ‘diversorum argumentorum’). It contains a dialogue between Pendacius and Cardanus very similar in content to M 203 Dialogus Cardani et patris. In Dupuy and Billaine. There is a record of a date: Cardano’s seventy-fifth birthday (24 September 1576) (OO 1.353).
See Marialuisa Baldi in Cardano e la tradizione dei saperi, pp. 307-34.
OO 1.339-54

M 205 Examen XX aegrorum Hippocratis 1575 P Med previously M 124
Mentioned in the Will of 1576, and in DVP in a confused entry (‘De alimento aegrorum lib 22’). Part of Hippocrates project: Extracts from the commentaries on Epidemics, books 1 and 3. Taken from lectures given in 1565-6; see Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 286n.
Publication: Rome, Haeredes Antonii Bladii, 1575.
OO 9.32-46

*M 206 De Vita propria 1575-6 MS Moral previously M 160
Mentioned in the Will of 1576 and in DVP: for dedication to Gregory XIII.
Publication De propria vita, ed. Gabriel Naudé, Paris: Jacques Villery, 1643.
Modern edition (with details of surviving MSS) ed. and trans. Jean-Yves Boriaud, Paris : Belles Lettres, 2020.
OO 1.1-54

2. Work, now lost, acknowledged by Cardano

M 207 Dissertatio de comparatione praesentis vitae cum aeterna Theol
Argelati CCII, lists this as a work on the basis of DVP, ch.22 (Boriaud, p. 109): ‘longa olim dissertatio a me conscripta est, quam hic contraxi: non posse esse pares ullo modo molestias huius vitae ei felicitati quam de sequenti speramus.’
Not in OO

3. Works not acknowledged by Cardano in Wills or DVP, but recorded in his Nachlass

M 208 In Marsilii Ficini Theologiam prooemium MS Phil
In Billaine.
Ficino’s work is mentioned in Contradicentium medicorum libri, 2.2.7, OO 6.475.
Not in OO

M 209 De emplastris conficiendis MS Med
In Dupuy.
Not in OO

M 210 De sterilitate MS Med
In Billaine.
Not in OO

M 211 De podagrae curatione MS Med
In Billaine.
Not in OO

M 212. De alopecia, furfuribus seu porrigine, pediculari morbo, achoribus, dolore capitis [Opuscula varia et fragmenta] MS Med
In Billaine.
Not in OO

M 213 Tabula magna DIII florum MS Med
In Dupuy and Billaine.
Not in OO

M 214 Tabula generalis medica MS Med
In Dupuy.
Not in OO

M 215 Commentarii in librum Galeni de differentiis morborum MS Med

M 216 Commentarii in librum Galeni de differentiis symptomatum MS Med

M 217 Commentarii in librum Galeni de differentiis febrium MS Med
Three texts not mentioned in any Will or DVP. Possibly included in the Billaine portemanteau entry Opuscula medica. These are semiological texts which are part of the practical medicine course. Cardano certainly taught semiology in Bologna from 1562-70 (cf. M 166 De causis, signis et locis morborum). Galen, De differentiis febrium was on the syllabus at Bologna : see Simili, Archiginnasio, 61 (1966), 395-6. It is not clear why Cardano did not acknowledge these works.
OO 1. ē4v records these three works as too damaged to print

M 218 Signa propinati veneni et alia de venenis MS Med
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. In Billaine. Possibly a draft of a part or all of M 153 De venenis.
Not in OO

M 219 De instrumentis musicalibus fragmenta MS Mus
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. In Billaine. There is a section on musical instruments in M 83 Musica.
Not in OO

†M 220 De aceti natura iuxta materiam, etc. MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. In Billaine. Contains a possible reference to M 189 De natura (‘tertio naturalium’; OO 2.629) and to ‘cesenatum vinum quod ego expertus sum’ (ibid.): a possible link to the M 227 Consilia medica. Written as a ‘quaestio’ with ‘dubia’ and ‘responsa’.
OO 2.615-20

M 221 De febribus 1569 MS Med
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. Billaine has De [febre] pestilenti et alia innumera. MS in Rome Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale, Fondo S. Francesco a Ripa 11. Galen’s De febribus, was on the syllabus at Bologna see Simili, Archiginnasio, 61 (1966), 395-6.
OO 1.ē4v records a Tractatus de febribus putridis as too damaged to print: M 35 contains chapters entitled De febre putrida (6) and De febre pestilifera (9).
Not in OO

†M 222 Lectiones de morbo comitiali alias De epilepsia et de apoplexia before 1571 MS Med
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. In Billaine. Fragmentary (the text begins in the middle of lectio IV). The title is inferred from the incipits of the lectures. Printed as two separate works by Spon (De epilepsia; De apopolexia), but the lectiones are numbered continuously. Presumably delivered before the ban on teaching of 1571.
OO 10.388-428

M 223 Ricordo per il conclavo 1572 MS Med
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. Siraisi, The clock and the mirror, p. 326n says that it is a consilium on how to remain healthy in a papal conclave, written in 1572 for the conclave that elected Gregory XIII.
Two MSS in the Vatican Library, Fondo Vaticano Latino 7250, 7251.
Not in OO

†M 224 Exaereton mathematicorum [untitled] Rome, July 1572 MS Math
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. The title is probably Spon’s. Derived from previous mathematical works, composed in Rome, according to the prooemium. It consists in ‘definitiones’, ‘supposita’, 19 ‘propositiones’, 11 ‘theoremata’, and 8 ‘problemata’. To show the problems of making discoveries (‘problemata inveniendi’) from various sources; and to take further the work done in M 154 Regula Aliza. Billaine describes the work as ‘Mathematica plurima, definitiones, supposita, problemata, theoremata, &c.’
OO 4.446-62.

†M 225 Sermo de plus et minus 1572-6 MS Math
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. In Billaine. On negative numbers in quadratic equations, inter alia. A new work on mathematics. Contains a reference to Rafaele Bombelli, L’Algebra, Bologna, 1572 (OO 4.435).
OO 4 435-9

4. New or revised works not mentioned by Cardano, but subsequently discovered

†M 226 De usu ciborum 1576 MS Med
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP. In Billaine. From internal evidence (OO 7.47) partly written after June 1576, referring to a case of leprosy ‘quod ego observavi in Germanis apud illustrissimum Cardinalem Moronum Gregorii XIII P M a latere legatum ad Maximilianum Caesarem Augustum’. For the date of Morone’s visit, see Lorenzo Cardella, Memorie storiche de’ cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa, 9 vols, Rome: Pagliarini, 1792-7 (1793), 4.243. The work is written in more elegant Latin than Cardano’s usual style, includes no references to his own works in the area (notably M 185 De tuenda sanitate [2]), and contains also a reference to a long-lived ‘Cardinal Albanus’ known for his frugal eating habits: the most plausible candidate for such a figure is Cardinal Gian Girolamo Albani, a man known for his great sobriety of life, who died in 1591 in his eighty-eighth year. For these reasons, the attribution to Cardano is doubtful.
OO 7 1-64

*M 227 De utilitate ex adversis capienda [2] 1561-6 [MS] Moral
A revised text sent to Heinrich Petri, which was never published. See Marialuisa Baldi and Guido Canziani, ‘Dalla « secunda editio » del De utilitate’, in Girolamo Cardano, Le Opere, le fonti, la vita, pp. 499-520. MS in Universitätsbibliothek, Basel, AN XIV 58.
Modern partial edition: ed. Raffaele Passarella, Milan: Francoangeli, 2008
Not in OO

M 228 Consilia medica MS Med
Not mentioned specifically in any Will or DVP.. Several entries in Billaine.
MSS in Naples, Biblioteca nazionale , Vatican Library, and PBN MS Lat 7069, which Naudé ‘Iudicium’, *5r links to Cesanate and a member of the Massinio family.
Not in OO

M 229 De prudentia eximia et artificiosa 1576 MS Moral
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Mentioned by Naudé, De propria vita, Paris: Jaques Villery, 1643, sig. 5r: ‘quem arbitror extrema senectute inchoatum a Cardano fuisse quandoquidem manu eius propria totus exaratus est’. Mentioned by Naudé in a letter to Pieresc 26 May 1636: see Les correspondants de Peiresc: xiii Naudé, ed. Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, Paris, 1887, pp. 71-2. Possibly to be identified as M 161.
Bibliothèque de France, MS Lat. 8751.
OO 1.ē4r records this as a lost work

M 230 Liber de origine ventorum MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Naudé, ‘Iudicium’, in De propria vita, Paris: Jaques Villery, 1643, sig. *4v; ibid., *5v located a MS of this work with Dominicus a Molino in Venice. Similar subject matter to M 48 De supernis; M 104 De rerum varietate [2] devotes part of the first chapter to ‘Ventorum ratio’ (OO 3.5-7) which discusses their ‘origo’.
OO 1.ē4r records this as a lost work.
OO 7 1-64

5. Works written in Italian on natural philosophical topics, including music, found in Cardano’s Nachlass: possibly written 1571-6, not acknowledged by Cardano, but said by Cocanaro to be holographs

†M 231 Se la qualità può trapassare de subbietto in subbietto MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro: implicitly ‘trattato 1’ of a set; Dupuy, Billaine.
A dialogue between ‘M. Lorenzo’ and ‘M. Matteo’ on antiperistasis. The earliest use of the dialogue form by Cardano appears to be the revised version of Theonoston (composed after 1557); other texts in this form are M 159 Antigorgias (1562-6), M 168 Flosculus (1566-71), M 184 Carcer (1570), M 204 Dialogus Cardani et Facii (1574) and M 204 Dialogus Cardani et Pendasii (1574-6). Of these, the ones using names rather than types (Eremita, Civis) either refer to historical figures connected with Cardano’s life, or to common names, as in the case of this work.
OO 2.668-712

†M 232 Discorso del vacuo MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro: said to be an adjunct to the preceding entry, but not in dialogue form
Publication: OO 2.713-19

M 233 Trattato delle maniere e nature de calori, et conformità et differenza tra di esse MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro: implicitly’trattato 2’ of a set
Not in OO

M 234 Trattato del calore secondo i Filosofi MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro: implicitly’trattato 3’ of a set
Not in OO

M 235 Della necessità del porre l’intelletto secondo la via peripatetica, trattato MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro: implicitly ‘trattato 4’ pf a set
Not in OO

M 236 Trattato che si dia la pura potenza e la materia prima MS Phil
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro: implicitly’trattato 5’ of a set
Not in OO

†M 237 Della natura de’ principii è regolo musicali MS Mus
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Cocanaro (a holograph) implicitly ‘trattato 6’ of a set,
Billaine
Possibly a translation of part of M 202 De musica [2].
OO 4 621-30

†M 238 Operatione della linea MS Math
Not mentioned in any Will or DVP.
Possibly Billaine: ‘Operationi xxiv di Mathematica’
Part of a larger work (it begins ‘venendo alla diachiaratione…’).
Deals inter alia with military fortifications and artillery (against Cardano’s claim made in chapter 39 of DVP (OO 1.31; Boriaud p. 221) that he never dealt with these subjects).
OO 4 602-20

6. Works in the form of philosophical letters, listed by Argelati

M 239 Epistola ad Francescum Cicerejum (Argelati CXXXIII) on the education of sons.
In Marquardi Gudii et doctorum virorum ad eum epistolae, ed. Pieter Burman, Utrecht: Halma and vander Water, 1697, no. 33, pp. 119-21.
Not in OO

M 240 An melius perstare sine Medicis, an cum illis (Argelati CC)
‘Manoscritto in foglio di pag. 14, il quale trovasi insieme a diversi opusculi nella Biblioteca dei sig. Fratelli Marchesi Visconti.’
Not in OO

M 241 Cardani… ad Philippum Archintum epistola (Argelati CCXXIII)
Contains answers to three questions about chronology: ‘I. Quomodo anni eo modo possint firmari, ut in ipso reditu nulla temporum intersit differentia. II. An possible sit introitum Solis Christi tempore in ortu, idest conceptione in primum minutum Arietis 25. Martii figere, ac invenire qualiter eadem die fuerit AEquinoctium, vel die proxime antecedente. III. Quomodo tot discordiae de revolutionibus annorum concilientur com variis Tabulis, & figuris Astronomicis.’ Argelati notes its location: ‘MS in fol. … in Archintea’; I have not been able to find where this collection is located.
Not in OO

7. Works attributed to Cardano in public collections

M 242 Encomium Gesneri
MS in Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Simler Sammlung.