Wounded in a brawl, he took the law into his own hands, and revenged himself upon his assailant.

This punctilio proved him to be a true child of his age; and if we may credit his own account of both incidents, he behaved himself as became a gentleman of the period.

It involved him, however, in serious annoyances both at Rome and Savona, from which he only extricated himself with difficulty and which impaired his fortune.

Up to the age of fifty he remained unmarried, and then took a wife by whom he had no children.

He lived to the ripe age of eighty-four, always at Savona, excepting occasional visits to friends in Italian cities, and he died unmolested by serious illness after his first entrance into the Collegio Romano.