Case file · Witch trials
Pietro d'Abano accused of sorcery
The Padua physician and astrologer Pietro d'Abano was tried by the Inquisition on charges of heresy and magic; he died during the trial (c. 1316) and was condemned after death, his effigy burned.
1316 CE · 45.41, 11.88 · status: official
The sceptical view
Later legend gave him a familiar demon and magic books; the real charges concerned astrology and natural philosophy.