[Printed works and unpublished manuscripts. G.F. d'Acquapendente on the nervous system].

Fabrici gives limited description of neurological interest only in the  treatises (De visione voce auditu, Pentateuchum Chirurgicum and  Operationes chirurgicae). Therefore, apart the collection of 21 coloured  paintings preserved in the Marciana Library, neither a systematic  description nor an iconographic record regarding the nervous system  have been published by Fabrici.  However, two lists of manuscripts, respectively contained in the testament  of 1615 and in a letter of 1622 written by the Rettori to the Riformatori  dello Studio di Padova, demonstrate that Fabrici had composed  neurological works.  We found three manuscripts bearing the name of Fabrici  d’Acquapendente. The first is titled Consilia medica; the second De  ulceribus; the third De methodo anatomico ExcellentissimiAquapendentis  and De anathomia quaedam excerpta sub Excellentissimo Aquapendente.  The authors began studying the latter of them. It probably deals with a  collection of notes taken at a lecture by an unknown student, but its  interest remains noticeable, because it constitutes the only written  description, although indirect, of neuroanatomical structures by Fabrici. Key Words:Fabrici – Manuscripts – Books – Nervous system