Gentile da Foligno
Italian physician
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- Doctorate Medicine University of Bologna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gentile Gentili da Foligno was an Italian professor and doctor of medicine, trained at Padua and the University of Bologna, and teaching probably first at Bologna, then at the University of Perugia, Siena , where his annual stipend was 60 gold florins; he was called to Padua by Ubertino I da Carrara, Lord of Padua, then returned to Perugia for the remainder of his career. He was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being , a practice that had long been taboo in Roman times. Gentile wrote several widely copied and read texts and commentaries, notably his massive commentary covering all five books of the Canon of Medicine by the 11th-century Persian polymath Avicenna, the comprehensive encyclopedia that, in Latin translation, was fundamental to medieval medicine. Long after his death, Gentile da Foligno was remembered in the Nuremberg Chronicle as Subtilissimus rimator verborum Avicenne, "that most subtle investigator of Avicenna's teachings"
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