Note *230 — Chapter XIII
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An interesting book has been announced on the medical practice of that day: Tarulli, I medici ed i primordi della scuola medica Perugina. Meanwhile cf. Tarulli, Appunti Storici, in Boll. per l'Umbria, vol. XII., p. 385 et seq. According to Petrarch, Astrology and Medicine were different branches of a common charlatanism. Cf. Libri IV., Invectivarum contra medicum quemdam. Heywood, The Ensamples of Fra Filippo, a Study of Mediæval Siena (Siena, 1901), p. 325. Voigt, Il Risorgimento dell'antichità classica (Fir., 1897), vol. I., p. 77 et seq. Owen, The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance (London, 1893), p. 119, and cf. Chaucer in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. For medical practice in the fourteenth century, see Fiori di Medicina di Maestro Gregorio Medicofisico Del Sec. XIV. (Bologna, Gaetano Romagnuoli, 1865), and cf. Il Lasca, Nov. I., et X., Cena Prima. Pico della Mirandola was one of the first who entered the lists against these charlatans in his treatise in twelve books, Adversus Astrologos (Venice, 1498).