1. Pietro d'Abano was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme.
15 Facts About Pietro d'Abano
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Pietro d'Abano gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quae inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur.
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Pietro d'Abano was eventually accused of heresy and atheism, and came before the Inquisition.
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Pietro d'Abano died in prison in 1315 before the end of his trial.
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Pietro d'Abano lived in Greece for a period of time before he moved and commenced his studies for a long time at Constantinople.
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Pietro d'Abano settled at Padua, where he gained a reputation as a physician.
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Pietro d'Abano carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and palmistry, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology.
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Pietro d'Abano's best known works are the Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur and De venenis eorumque remediis, both of which are extant in dozens of manuscripts and various printed editions from the late fifteenth through sixteenth centuries.
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Pietro d'Abano is credited with writing De venenis eorumque remediis, which expounded on Arab theories concerning superstitions, poisons and contagions.
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Pietro d'Abano was twice brought to trial by the Inquisition; on the first occasion he was acquitted, and he died before the second trial was completed.
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Pietro d'Abano was found guilty and his 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 Abano in effigy.
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Pietro d'Abano's body, being privately taken out of his grave by his friends, escaped the vigilance of the Inquisitors, who would have condemned it to be burnt.
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Pietro d'Abano's accusers ascribed inconsistent opinions to him; they charged him with being a magician, and yet with denying the existence of spirits.
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Pietro d'Abano had such an antipathy to milk, that seeing anyone take it made him vomit.
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Pietro d'Abano died about the year 1316 in the sixty-sixth year of his age.