Giuseppe Zarra

Il «Thesaurus pauperum» pisano: Edizione critica, commento linguistico e glossario (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie) di Giuseppe Zarra

Medieval medicine is a field of study still largely unexplored, due mainly to the absence of modern editions of texts. One of these texts is the Thesaurus pauperum , a collection of recipes prepared with natural (and easily accessible) ingredients, conceived as a manual for self-medication. The extraordinary success of this work is proved by its large number of Latin witnesses and by the ...