a famous physician, who lived about the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. He studied at Paris and Montpellier, and improved himself by visiting the schools of Italy and Spain. He was well acquainted with languages, particularly with the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. His desire after the acquisition of knowledge was ardent, but it carried him too far in his researches. He put unlimited faith in astrology, and published a prediction that the consummation of the world would take place in the middle of the 14th century. He practised physic at Paris for some time; but having advanced some new doctrines, he drew upon himself the resentment of the university; and his friends, fearing he might be arrested, persuaded him to retire from that city. Upon his leaving France he went to Sicily, where he was received by king Frederic of Arragon with the greatest marks of kindness and esteem. Some time afterwards this prince sent him to France to attend pope Clement in an illness; and he was shipwrecked on the coast of Genoa about the year 1313. His works, with a life prefixed, were printed at Lyons in 1520, in one volume folio, and at Basil in 1585, with the notes of Nicholas Tolerus.