Dino del Garbo

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Dino del Garbo (full name Dino di maestro B (u) ono del Garbo da Firenze , also Dino da Firenze , Aldobrandino , Latinized Dinus Florentinus ; * around 1280 in Florence ; † September 30, 1327 ibid) was an Italian doctor , university professor and became known as a commentator ("Expositor") of the Canon of Avicenna .

biography

Dino del Garbo was the son of the surgeon Bono del Garbo (possibly also Buono or Bruno del Garbo) from the wealthy noble family Del Garbo in Florence. Around 1295 he was a student of Taddeo Alderotti in Bologna , who at the time was the most important representative of a reorientation of medicine and natural philosophy in the works of Averroes and Avicenna, to which Dino del Garbo would then also make a significant contribution.

In 1296 he returned to Florence with his father because of the war between Bologna and Ferrara , where he and his father were enrolled in the guild of doctors and pharmacists until 1297. In 1300 political circumstances allowed him to resume his studies in Bologna, where he received his doctorate and taught from 1304 to 1306. When in 1306 the papal legate Napoleone Orsini imposed the ban on Bologna and the residents of Bologna were thereby excluded from attending the university, Dino del Garbo was again forced to leave Bologna. As early as October 1306, however, he was hired by the Commune of Siena (which was responsible for paying the professors) for an unusually high salary of 90 gold florins as dotore del chomune di Siena in scienza e fisicha and then taught in Siena until the spring of 1309 where he concluded his commentary on the 3rd and 4th fen of Book IV of the Canon of Avicenna . In the following years he returned to Bologna and began in 1311 his Dilucidatorium totius pratice medicinalis scientie , a commentary on the 4th fen of Book I of the Canon. After a few years of teaching in Padua , he returned to Florence in 1319 and completed his dilucidarium there . In 1321, following the departure of the Faculty of Medicine and Artists from Bologna to Siena, he was reappointed by the Commune of Siena for urban studies, this time at an exorbitant annual salary of 350 gold florins. He taught in Siena until 1323, during which time he worked on his commentary on the treatment of medicinal plants in Book II of Avicenna's Canon medicinae , a work that he completed after his return to Florence in 1325 and dedicated to Robert von Anjou . His Latin commentary on Guido Cavalcanti's love canzone Donna mi prega , which has come down to us in a manuscript from Boccaccio and has also been translated into an expanded vernacular version, may have been written during these last years in Florence .

It is questionable whether Dino del Garbo was actually, as Giovanni Villani tells in his chronicle (X.41), involved in the persecution and execution of the astrologer Cecco d'Ascoli , whom he is said to have been grieved for because of an earlier accusation of plagiarism. The legend would later attribute the fact that Dino also died soon after Cecco's execution, to a revenge spell by Cecco.

His son Tommaso del Garbo also became a professor of medicine.

Fonts (selection)

  • Surgery cum tractatu de ponderibus et mensuris, nec non de emplastris et unguentis. Ferrara 1485.
  • Dilucidarium Avicennae. Ferrara 1489.
  • Compilatio Empastrorum et Unguentorum. Ferrara 1489.
  • Dynus super quarta Fen primi: cum tabula . - Venice: Lucas Antonius Giunta Florentinus, 1522. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Expositio super tertia, quarta, et parte quintae fen IV. Libri Avicennae . - Venice: Johann Hamann for Andreas Torresanus, December 4, 1499. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Expositio super Canones generales de virtutibus medicamentorum simplicium secundi Canonis Avicennae. Venice 1514.

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SURNAME Dino del Garbo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dino di maestro Buono del Garbo da Firenze; Dino di maestro Bono del Garbo da Firenze; Dinus Florentinus; Dinus of Florence; Dino da Firenze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1280
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1327
Place of death Florence