Il De Machinis

In this article are examined the linguistic and content differences among the various copies and versions of the manuscript of Jacopo Mariano Taccola's De machinis according to the analysis and critical editions of Gustina Scaglia and other science historians, till the original interpretation of Dimitru Snagov, who in 1978 turns for the first time a comparative linguistic survey on the different manuscripts, proposing hypotheses of special award.