Victor, Didascalion, II, 20; see ICM, 828, fn

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 verso mechanical art can be found in Hugh of St. 11; Petrarch refers puro medicine as per mechanical art also durante XII, 2, 454, 466, 473-4.

10 Fracassetti, Studio letterario vecchio, vol. 2, 242-3, translates a passage not found in Bernardo’s edition: “Inaspettatamente volubilita di carriera, dubbio anche inutilita della cura,” XII, 2.

The continuing popularity of the Conciliator is attested by per seventeenth-century epitome, Conciliator enucleatus seu differentiarum philosophicarum et medicarum petri apponensis Compendium, Gregori Lorsti, acad

11 Peirce, “How sicuro Make Our Ideas Clear,” Writings, vol. login sdc 3, 263-4: “The super of a belief is the establishment of a habit, and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.”

V. Nutton remarks that a good manuscript of Galen’s works was available at the papal trapu durante 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 caritatevole del Petrarca; Dono divino agostiniana, attinenze medievali (Turin: Dispensa d’Erasmo, 1966), 208f. 13. Petrarch seems preciso collapse dialectic and logic; on this issue see Eleonore Stump, Dialectic and its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).

14 Petrarch is not above employing syllogizing, per deepest 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: sinon quod alio spectat, et ad aliud refertur, et propter aliud levante inventum, illi serviat oportet, ut manque vis. Rimedio autem tua pecumian spectat et ad illam refertur et propter illam oriente. Conclude, dyaletice: percio pecunie domestica oriente.”

15 Petrarch also argues that the more necessary is not by that more noble: “Igitur putas necessitas artium nobilitatem arguat. Contra est; alioquin nobilissimus artificum erit agricola; sutor quoque et pistor et tu, sinon mactare desieris, durante precio eritis,” ICM, III, 894-6; cf. III, 910.

16 “. . . the doctor had done nothing at all, nor could he have except what a loquacious dialectician, rich con boredom and lacking mediante 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 dialogue 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 taccuino the attack on him as Averroist by the Dominicans mediante Differentia 48; Nardi contests the notion of d’Abano as Averroist durante “La opinione dell’anima ed la epoca delle forme indietro Pietro d’Abano,” 1-17, and “In giro alle dottrine filosofiche di Pietro d’Abano,” durante Studi sulla dottrina aristotelica nel Veneto, I: Saggi sull’Aristotelismo padovano dal mondo XIV at XVI (Florence: Sansoni, 1958), 19-74. P. Ovverosia. Kristeller makes the point that Petrarch’s opponents durante the De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia were probably Bolognese, not Paduans, durante “Petrarch’s ‘Averroists’; A Note on the History of Aristotelianism durante 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,” Campione medicorum graecorum, 8.1.1 (1979), 27.

21 See the argument cited in Differentia 3, (8r): “. . . medicari non est scientia subite: sed quidam actus et labor particularis, et de tali assenza oriente scientia . . . regulat per actu operandi particularem et tunc consequitor medicinae finis perfecte, quod ostenditur.”