Francesco's inheritance. The civil authorities acted with firmness, and secured the passage of the whole of the estate to his brother Cesare. Fame Via the Free City of Augsburg Borri moved to free imperial city Strasbourg, where the Protestant milieu welcomed him with enthusiasm. Borri was surrounded by a circle of fervent admirers, who glorified his ability as a physician, ophthalmologist and iatrochemist. Soon he became well known among the local noblemen, and his fame spread. He seems to have visited Frankfurt, Leipzig and Dresden, and in December 1660, he arrived in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, after the verdict was read in public, Borri's effigy was brought in procession to Campo de' Fiori in Rome, where 60 years earlier, Giordano Bruno had been executed. The effigy was hung and burned together with Borri's writings. Princes and merchants flocked to consult the physician-alchemist, who specialized on cataract. He extended his interests beyond medicine and alchemy to include magic, cosmetics, and engineering. In April 1661, the Amsterdam burgomasters conferred on him honorary citizenship. During this period, he met Henry Oldenburg, Robert Moray, Constantijn Huygens, Franciscus van den Enden, Theodor Kerckring and Olaus Borrichius, then living in Amsterdam for his studies. Borrichius who became an admirer of Borri and his knowledge. Borri even dedicated to Borrichius a book (Chymie Hippocraticae Specimina Quinque, Köln, 1664). He was portrayed by Jürgen Ovens and engraved by Pieter van Schuppen. In Amsterdam Borri cut open the eye of a dog, expressed the lens together with the aqueous and vitreous body, instilled a liquid and showed that the eye regained its shape and the humors were reformed. He later repeated his experiment in Copenhagen on a goose. In April 1662 Borri borrowed 100,000 guilders from Gerard Demmer, a former Council of the Dutch Indies who had served the East India Company on Ambon Island, and in turn supplied him with his secret treatment. Borri promised to pay back the money after two years. But Demmer died within a few days (and was buried on 5 May). Borri rented a mansion with stables and drove around in a coach. He was attended by six servants and kept a tiger in his house. When Borri did not pay back anything after two years, Demmer's heirs started a trial. In January 1665 he was obliged in a verdict. Either already in 1664, but before 17 December 1665 Borri left Amsterdam, taking with a