Collecting and Interpreting Apicius in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Manuscript Tradition and Circulation of Culinary/Dietary Knowledge
Wanessa Asfora Nadler
The present article explores the role of Italian humanists, particularly during second half fifteenth century, in rediscovery cookbook that was attributed to Apicius Renaissance. focus here is on three Renaissance manuscripts (Saint Petersburg, Inst. Istor. Akad. Nauk 627/2; Città Del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 6337; München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Monacensi Latini 756). working hypothesis this played an important development medical–pharmacological knowledge at end century. Apicius, it would seem, regarded as a point access natural world through lens ancient and supposedly uncorrupted auctoritas.
Food & history