Vocabolista

Florentine poet Luigi Pulci (1432-1484), author of Morgante, around 1460 put together a Vocabolista, a small handbook of myths accompanied by a list of scholarly terms collected in alphabetical order and briefly explained (“Vocaboli Latini hordinati per alphabeto per ordine cominciando a quelli della a”). Today, only a late handwritten copy is known, written by Giovanni Mazzuoli called the Stradino of around 1537-1540. Leonardo transcribed and re-elaborated at least three hundred entries from the Vocabolista in his Codex Trivulzianus (pp. 26-23).