ABANO, PIETRO D' (c. 1250–C. 1316), known also as PE TRUS DE APONO or APONENSIS, Italian physician and philosopher, was born at Abano in 125o or 1246. After studying medicine and philosophy at Paris he practised at Padua. He was twice brought to trial by the Inquisition on a charge of practising magic ; on the first occasion he was acquitted, and he died bef ore the second trial was completed. His best known works, in which he advocates the systems of Averroes and other Arabian writers, are the Conciliator dill erentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur (Mantua, 1472 ; Venice, 1476) ; and De venenis eorumque remediis (1472; French trans. Lyons, 1593).