Editing Pietro d'Abano (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Palazzo Bo aula di Medicina busto Pietro dAbano - Wikigita Padova 16 settembre 2022 f46.jpg|thumb|left|Bust of Pietro d'Abano at the [[University of Padua]] in [[Palazzo del Bo]], Padua.]]

He lived in Greece for a period of time<ref name=Colliers/> before he moved and commenced his studies for a long time at [[Constantinople]] (between 1270 and 1290). Around 1300 he moved to Paris, where he was promoted to the degrees of doctor in philosophy and medicine, in the practice of which he was very successful, but his fees were remarkably high. In Paris he became known as "the Great Lombard". He settled at [[Padua]], where he gained a reputation as a physician. In Padua he befriended an older scholar [[Paolo Tosetti]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hg5BAQAAMAAJ|title=Dizionario biografico universale|volume=5|first=Felice|last=Scifoni|publisher=David Passigli|location=Florence|year=1849|page=380}}</ref> Also an [[astrologer]],<ref>An important text, ''Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens'', was attributed to him.</ref> he was charged with practising [[Magic (paranormal)|magic]]: the particular accusations being that he brought back into his purse, by the aid of the [[devil]], all the money he paid away, and that he possessed the [[philosopher's stone]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Abano, Pietro D'|volume=1|page=7}}</ref>

[[Gabriel Naudé]], in his ''Antiquitate Scholae Medicae Parisiensis'', gives the following account of him:

{{blockquote|Let us next produce Peter de Apona, or Peter de Abano, called the Reconciler, on account of the famous book which he published during his residence in your university.

It is certain that physic lay buried in Italy, scarce known to any one, uncultivated and unadorned, till its tutelar genius, a villager of Apona, destined to free Italy from its barbarism and ignorance, as [[Marcus Furius Camillus|Camillus]] once freed [[Rome]] from the siege of the Gauls, made diligent enquiry in what part of the world polite literature was most happily cultivated, philosophy most subtilly handled, and physic taught with the greatest solidity and purity; and being assured that Paris alone laid claim to this honour, thither he presently flies; giving himself up wholly to her tutelage, he applied himself diligently to the mysteries of philosophy and medicine; obtained a degree and the laurel in both; and afterwards taught them both with great applause: and after a stay of many years, loaden with the wealth acquired among you, and, after having become the most famous philosopher, astrologer, physician, and mathematician of his time, returns to his own country, where, in the opinion of the judicious [[Scardeon]], he was the first restorer of true philosophy and physic. Gratitude, therefore, calls upon you to acknowledge your obligations due to [[Michæl Angelus Blondus]], a physician of Rome, who in the last century undertaking to publish the ''Conciliationes Physiognomicæ'' of your Aponensian doctor, and finding they had been composed at Paris, and in your university, chose to publish them in the name, and under the patronage, of your society.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}}}

He 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. These studies proved extremely advantageous to him. The first two led to his introduction to all the popes of his time and gained him a reputation among scholars. Beyond that, his mastery of astrology is shown by
* the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua
* his translations of the books of the great learned rabbi [[Abraham ibn Ezra|Abraham Aben Ezra]]
* his own books on critical days
* the improvement of astronomy
*and the testimony of the renowned mathematician [[Regiomontanus]], who praised his mastery of astrology in his public oration at Padua on ''[[Al-Farghani]]'s'' masterwork ''[[Al-Farghani#Works|Elements of astronomy on the celestial motions]]''.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}}