Dino del Garbo

In 1295 he was a pupil of Taddeo Alderotti in Bologna, then one of the most important representatives of a reorientation of medicine and natural philosophy using the works of Averroes and Avicenna, to which Dino del Garbo also made a major contribution.

In 1300 the political conditions improved enough for him to resume his studies in Bologna, where he received his doctorate in the following years and taught from 1304 to 1306.

He taught in Siena until spring 1309 and it was there where he completed his commentary on part of book IV of the Canon by Avicenna.

He then returned to Bologna and in 1311 began his Dilucidatorium totius pratice medicinalis scientie, a commentary on part of Book I of the Canon.

He also produced a Latin commentary on Guido Cavalcanti's love poem Donna me prega, possibly during these final years in Florence - it is preserved in a manuscript of Boccaccio and was translated to an extended vernacular version.