8 Petrarch’s source is Pliny, Historia naturalia, tr. W.H.S. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), Book 29, 1-8; Petrarch makes repeated use of Pliny, see especially, the Invective, henceforth cited as ICM, I, 828; II, 868, 872; III, 912.
9 The classification of medicine as a mechanical art can be found mediante Hugh of St. 11; Petrarch refers preciso medicine as per mechanical art also con XII, 2, 454, 466, 473-4.
10 Fracassetti, Lettere della vecchiaia, vol. 2, 242-3, translates verso passage not found mediante Bernardo’s edition: “Ecco volubilita di carriera, incertezza ed inutilita della provvedimento,” XII, 2.
The continuing popularity of the Conciliator is attested by a seventeenth-century compendio, Conciliator enucleatus seu differentiarum philosophicarum et medicarum petri apponensis Compendium, Gregori Lorsti, acad
11 Peirce, “How onesto Make Our Ideas Clear,” Writings, vol. 3, 263-4: “The chic of per belief is the establishment of a habit, and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action sicuro which they give rise.”
V. Nutton remarks that per good manuscript of Galen’s works was available at the papal courtaud in 1353, John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, (Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1987), vol
12 On Petrarch and the dialecticians see Pietro Paolo Gerosa, Umanesimo cristiano del Petrarca; Prestigio agostiniana, attinenze medievali (Turin: Credenza d’Erasmo, 1966), 208f. 13. Petrarch seems onesto collapse dialectic and logic; on this issue see Eleonore Stump, Dialectic and its Place mediante the Development of Medieval Logic (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
14 Petrarch is not above employing syllogizing, in deepest seekingarrangement irony, of course; see ICM, III, 932: “Certe ego nunc risu et verecundia impedior sillogismum tibi tuo parem mittere, quo probem te vilissime servum rei. Quod urbanius possum dicam: si quod alio spectat, et ad aliud refertur, et propter aliud est inventum, illi serviat oportet, ut tu vis. Antidoto autem aneantit pecumian spectat et ad illam refertur et propter illam levante. Conclude, dyaletice: allora pecunie schiava est.”
15 Petrarch also argues that the more necessary is not by that more noble: “Igitur putas necessitas artium nobilitatem arguat. Contra levante; alioquin nobilissimus artificum erit agricola; sutor quoque et pistor et tu, si mactare desieris, in precio eritis,” ICM, III, 894-6; cf. III, 910.
16 “. . . the doctor had done nothing at all, nor could he have except what verso loquacious dialectician, rich sopra boredom and lacking durante remedies, can do”; “Medicum nil omnino vel fecisse, vel facere potuisse, nisi quod dialecticus loquax potest, taedii dives, inopsque remedii.”
18 I use the edition, Conciliator controversarium quae inter philosophos eet medicos versantur (Venice: apud Juntas, 1548). Nancy Siraisi’s conversation of d’Abano durante Arts and Sciences at Padua; The Studium of Padua before 1350 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1973), is excellent. D’Abano libretto the attack on him as Averroist by the Dominicans mediante Differentia 48; Nardi contests the notion of d’Abano as Averroist con “La dispensa dell’anima di nuovo la generazione delle forme secondo Pietro d’Abano,” 1-17, and “In giro alle dottrine filosofiche di Pietro d’Abano,” durante Studi sulla preparazione aristotelica nel Veneto, I: Saggi sull’Aristotelismo padovano dal epoca XIV at XVI (Florence: Sansoni, 1958), 19-74. P. Ovverosia. Kristeller makes the point that Petrarch’s opponents sopra the De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia were probably Bolognese, not Paduans, in “Petrarch’s ‘Averroists’; Verso Note on the History of Aristotelianism con Venice, Padua, and Bologna,” Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 14 (1952), 59-65. Giessena (Giessae: Casparus Chemlinus, 1621).
19 Lynn Thorndike, “Translations from the Greek by Pietro d’Abano,” Isis, 33 (1942), 649-53; see also V. Nutton, “Galen on Prognosis,” Corpo medicorum graecorum, 8.1.1 (1979), 27.
21 See the argument cited mediante Differentia 3, (8r): “. . . medicari non levante scientia deconcertante: sed quidam actus et labor particularis, et de tali nulla levante scientia . . . regulat mediante actu operandi particularem et tunc consequitor medicinae finis perfecte, quod ostenditur.”