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ABANO, PIETRO

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ABANO, PIETRO D' (1250-1316), known also as PETRUS DE APONO or APONENSIS, See also:Italian physician and philosopher, was See also:born at the Italian See also:town from which he takes his name in 1250, or, according to others, in 1246. After studying See also:medicine and See also:philosophy at See also:Paris he settled at See also:Padua, where he speedily gained a See also:great reputation as a physician, and availed himself of it to gratify his avarice by refusing to visit patients except for an exorbitant See also:fee. Perhaps this, as well as his meddling with See also:astrology, caused him to be charged with practising magic, the particular accusations being that he brought back into his See also:purse, by the aid of the See also:devil, all the See also:money he paid away, and that he possessed the philosopher's See also:stone. He was twice brought to trial by the See also:Inquisition ; on the first occasion he was acquitted, and he died (1316) before the second trial was completed. He was found guilty, however, and his See also:body was ordered to be exhumed and burned ; but a friend had secretly removed it, and the Inquisition had, therefore, to content itself with the public See also:proclamation of its See also:sentence and the burning of Abano in effigy. In his writings he expounds and See also:advocates the medical and philosophical systems of See also:Averroes and other Arabian writers. His best known See also:works are the Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur (See also:Mantua, 1472 ; See also:Venice, 1476), and De venenis eorumque remediis (1472), of which a See also:French See also:translation was published at See also:Lyons in 1593.

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