In an article entitled ?Per una nuova valutazione del Quattrocento francese?published in 1957 on the threshold of the first booklet of "Studi Francesi", Franco Simoneaffirmed that philological restitution of texts and understandingof their place inside the culture that had products were the premiseessential, before any exegesis or critical interpretation, to achievea redefinition of overly limited historiographical paradigms in which theFrench literature from the late Middle Ages had been located until that time.We know that the research of the Italian scientist has powerfully dissipatedthe historiographical myth of the 15th century Gothic opposed to the bloomingof Italian culture, for the benefit of an enhancement of wealth and fertilitya period which testifies, among other things, to an acute historical awarenessand of great interest for the ancient tradition, as well as for the great foundersof Italian Humanism; in the following decades, synergistic effortsspecialists largely trained in French, Belgian and Italian schoolshave resulted in the publication of numerous studies and editions in thefield of literature in French medium, in favor of the base for aimposing critical work that has refined, corrected and deepened the suggested perspectiveformerly by the author of La coscienza della rinascita negli umanisti francesi.