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Francesco degli Stabili (1257 - 26 Sep 1327)

Alias Chicus Asculanus
Alias Cecco d'Ascoli

Italian encyclopaedist, physician, commentator, poet, and professor of astrology at the University of Bologna. He published a commentary on the De sphaera mundi of John de Sacrobosco. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecco_d%27Ascoli Relevant locations: Lived at or near Italy, Europe
Workplace or place of business Bologna, Emilia-Romagna
 Linked print sources: as N/A - De sphaera mundi.
 References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

14. King Mithridates his Oneirocritica. Aristotle de Precationibus. Democritus de his quæ fiunt apud Orcum, & Oceani circumnavigatio. A defence of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, whom the learned Postellus conceived to be the author of De Tribus Impostoribus. Epicurus de Pietate. A Tragedy of Thyestes, and another of Medea, writ by Diogenes the Cynick. King 199 Tract XIII. Bibliotheca Abscondita King Alfred upon Aristotle de Plantis. Seneca's Epistles to S. Paul. King Solomon de Umbris Idæarum, which Chicus Asculanus, in his Comment upon Johannes de Sacrobosco, would make us believe he saw in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria.