Avicenna
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Avicenna
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Translations
a Persian polymath
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Italian
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Etymology
From a Latinization of Persian ابن سينا (Ibn Sīnā).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Avicenna m
- Avicenna (Persian polymath, 980 ca. C.E.–1037 C.E.)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, page 64, lines 140–144:
- […] 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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Further reading
Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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