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PIETRO See also:ABANO
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
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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
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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: |
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