Bartholomei Montagnane medici clarissimi Consiliorum aggregatio de egritudinibus tam communibus quam particularibus a capite usque ad pedes: et de conseruanda sanitate feliciter incipit

Impressum est Venetijs : per Simonem de Luere : impensis diui Andree Torresani de Asula, 1499 xx Aug. Sala del Dottorato, Inc. 18(2)

Bartolomeo Montagnana (about 1380-1460), was a physician and Medicine Professor at the University of Padua from 1422 to 1441.

Between 1428 and 1448 he formulated more than 400 consilia: clinical cases analysis conducted by M. after an autopsy or after the doctors had informed him about a disease; his writings were later collected, sorted and published by his students and colleagues in an organic and detailed collection of 305 cases, regarding all medical mattes, including surgery and anatomy.

The prestige of “Consilia Montagnanae” was to last for several centuries and many medical writers drew from its scientific information and structure, open to the charter 1v-2r by consilium primum - De conservanda sanitate – dedicated to maintaining health through the attention paid to diet, eating and drinking, …“De conservazione sanitatis per electionem et rectificationem cibi et potus”.

The diet was to be varied (meat, fish, eggs, milk, aromatic herbs, fruits, legumes...) and crucial were also the type of preparation and cooking.