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13th century, “Ⅱ. Dell'aria, e conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua [2. About the Air, and the Discernment of Its Goodness and Badness]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:
L'Aere, secondo Avicenna, è uno degli elementi delle cose generate
Air is, according to Avicenna, one of the elements of the created things
mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 140–144; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ.Le Lettere, 1994:
[…] e vidi Orfeo, Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale; Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo, Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno, Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.
and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.
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