A great number of famous and talented men have had one sort of venereal illness or another. Here are one or two of them Abraham, David and Job, Caesar, Herod Tiberius, Charlemagne, Charles V and VIII of France, John of Gaunt, Popes Alexander VI, Julius II and Leo X, Henry VIII, Erasmus, Albrecht Durer, Thomas Wolsey, Ivan the Terrible, Benvenuto Cellini, Richelieu John Aubrey, Casanova, Boswell, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Keats, Schubert, Nietzsche, Mussolini, Hitler, Gauguin, Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, etc., etc. (See T. Rosebury, "Microbes and Morals"). This list could easily be extended.