[2792] This can perhaps be traced back to a passage in Tiraboschi (1775) V, 147, “Il primo, ch’io sappia, a commentare tra gl’Italiani le opere di Averroe, e a farne uso scrivendo, fu Pietro d’Abano che nel suo Conciliatore assai spesso lo vien citando or sotto il vero suo nome or sotto quello per eccellenza adattatogli di Comentatore.” Renan (see note 2) has already pointed out that Peter was not the first Italian to cite Averroes.
[2793] E. Renan. Averroès et L’Averroïsme, fifth edition, pp. 326-7. Yet Renan admits that Averroes was then regarded as an opponent of astrology. We shall see, however, that Peter cites Averroes for the association of seven spirits with the planets, a point not noted by Renan.
[2794] Ibid., p. 327.
[2795] Steinschneider (1905), pp. 58-9.
[2796] The paintings do not seem to have been executed until about 1400.
[2797] Muratori, Antiquitates Italicae, III, 374-5.
[2798] Naudé (1625), pp. 381-91.
[2799] De rerum praenotione, VII, 7, cited by Mazzuchelli (1741), p. xxvii.
[2800] Naudé (1625), pp. 380-1.
[2801] If this means Averroes, it will be noted that Peter does not sustain him against the Christian Faith.