The medical literature of this period is extremely voluminous, but essentially second-hand, consisting mainly of commentaries on Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna and others, or of compilations and compendia still less original than commentaries.
There is a large number of small treatises and compendia of Florentine history of the guide-book description.
The second volume contains minor works which are the barest compendia of facts taken from well-known sources.