Alternative Title is exactly "Precetti necessarii, overo miscellane; parte in capi, parte in alberi, sopra diverse cose pertinenti alla grammatica, retorica, topica, loica, poetica, historia, et altre facoltà ."
The work is conceived as a series of tree diagrams ('alberi') and short paragraphs which aim at summarising the main rational faculties (grammar, rhetoric, topics, logic, poetics, history). Aristotle is one of the main sources employed by Toscanella,…