This article examines Rabelais' first scholarly edition: volume 2 of Giovanni Manardo's Medical Letters, published with a dedication dated June 3, 1532. Manardo, a Ferraran humanist and a practitioner of the genre of commentariola or commentationes, was at the forefront of the medical philology of his time. In choosing this treatise for his first such edition, Rabelais took an innovative step which offered a synthesis between the medical tradition of the Ancients and the experimentation of the Moderns.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques