SC - primary sources

[ana l. valdes]

I come across two really wonderful books and I wonder if someone of the
list know them and can tell me if they are as good as I think they are.
One of them its written by Michele Savonarola, the italian humanist and
doctor and the title is "Libreto de tutte le cosse che si magnano;
un`opera di dietetica del sec XV". Its edited by the university in
Stockholm and curated and edited by a scholar named Jane Nystedt. He was
the oncle of Girolamo Savonarola, the famous priest. This work is a
complete treaty about vegetables, meat and fishes and I found this book
really fascinating.
The other one is a Spanish manuscript from 1593, written by Rodrigo de
Zayas, and discovered by a bookseller in London 1938.
I have the French version, "Mes Secrets à Florence au temps des Médicis
1593", annotated by Stefano Francesco di Romolo Rosselli.
Are they good enough to be trusted as "primary sources"?
Mylord Ras, lord Stefan, messire Adamantius, messire Cariadoc, are these
books "reliable"?
(I am going to use some of their recipes about cooking methods of that
time, thats I need their "validation".
Yours in Seeking the Truth
Ana L. Valdés
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