Pietro de Abano

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Abano, Pietro de (1246 or 1250 – 1316 or 1320?)

A learnèd Italian physician, d'Abano, also called Petrus, denied the existence of spirits and ascribed all miracles to natural causes. Cited before the Inquisition in 1306 as a heretic, a magician, and an atheist, he defended himself and was acquitted. Petrus was accused a second time but, while the trial was preparing, he died. He was condemned after death, his body was disinterred and burned – a friend hid the cremains, so authorities burned him in effigy in the public square of Padua.

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