Per un'edizione critica di quattro trattatelli medici del primo Trecento.

Il Libro della cura delle febbri, Il Libro della cura delle malattie, Il Libro delle segrete cose delle donne and Il Libro dell'adornamento delle femmine, which will soon have a critical edition, are four medical short treatises datable to around the first quarter of the fourteenth century. They are particularly important for the studies of historical lexicography and Italian etymology: not just because they were perused by the academicians of the Crusca since the first imprint of the Vocabolario with misleading captions and incongruous attributions, but also because they were among the texts involved in the question of Francesco Redi's falsifications in the third and fourth imprint of the Vocabolario. The contribution that the four books make to the old Italian lexicon is noteworthy both for the many hapax and the number of first attestations. The lexical specimen that is here shown includes roughly twenty entries of the most interesting words in the four pamphlets: they are mainly technical terms in medical and botanical language, but there are also latinisms or words belonging to the common language, otherwise not attested, or attested here for the first time.