Tim,

      This is a reasonably good paper on the life and contributions of 
   Nicolo Fontana ("Tartaglia").  However, it would have been better to 
   bring in some additional material beyond what we discussed in 
   class (there's not too much that is new here).  For instance, if you 
   look at the page 

   http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Tartaglia_v_Cardan.html

   (linked from our course homepage), you will see a number of extracts
   from letters of the principal people in the story, a translation
   of the actual text of Tartaglia's poem on the solution of the cubic,
   samples of the problems that came up in the contests you described, 
   and so forth. That would have been a very good source to consult in 
   addition to the ones you used. 

   In addition, please be more careful about details in your written 
   work:

     (1)  It's Cardano (or sometimes Cardan from the French form
          of the name), not Cardona

     (2)  The title of Cardano's famous book is the Ars Magna, not
          the Ars Magnus ("ars (nom.), artis (gen.)" is a feminine 
          3rd declension noun in Latin :) )

     (3)  There are quite a few other typos as well.

   Grade:  B+