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PIETRO ABANO

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABANO  D' (1250-1316), known also as PETRUS DE APONO or APONENSIS,
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Italian physician and philosopher, was born at the Italian
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town from which he takes his name in 1250, or, according to others, in 1246 . After studying
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medicine and philosophy at Paris he settled at Padua, where he speedily gained a
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great reputation as a physician, and availed himself of it to gratify his avarice by refusing to visit patients except for an exorbitant
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fee . Perhaps this, as well as his meddling with
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astrology, caused him to be charged with practising magic, the particular accusations being that he brought back into his purse, by the aid of the devil, all the
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money he paid away, and that he possessed the philosopher's stone . He was twice brought to trial by the 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
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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 proclamation of its sentence and the burning of
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Abano in effigy . In his writings he expounds and advocates the medical and philosophical systems of Averroes and other Arabian writers . His best known
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works are the Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur (Mantua, 1472 ; Venice, 1476), and De venenis eorumque remediis (1472), of which a French
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translation was published at Lyons in 1593 .

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