In this project, I analyzed 354 samples from 181 select non-grass species commonly encountered in Southwest Asian archaeological soils. Deborah Pearsall has been a pioneer in emphasizing the importance of understanding phytolith production patterns and in discovering phytolith types that can be used to reconstruct various aspects of human/plant interactions. Phytoliths are becoming an increasingly important tool in archaeological, forensic, paleontological, and nanotechnological research. If one considers miniatures in legal manuscripts as a network of images supporting lawyers’ memory, it appears that the lively narrative and expressive energy of l’Illustratore properly answered the need of something striking and unusual mnemonic images should show to be memorable according to the first-century-BC Rhetorica ad Herennium. This approach depends on the observations by Frances Yates (1969) and Jean-Philippe Antoine (1988) about the correspondence between the mental images used in religious meditation shaped as active images set in tridimensional places according to the rules of the classical and medieval artificial memory and the great change of Italian religious painting between the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries. My paper is intended to focus on one among the protagonists of this turning, working in the 1330s-1340s, the anonymous illuminator nicknamed l’Illustratore by Longhi himself, and suggest a new interpretation of his disruption of giottesque balance on the basis of the didactic function as mnemonic images that miniatures performed in the law manuscripts produced for Bologna University, the main European center for this kind of objects. Art historians have widely studied the direct expressive force of Bolognese Trecento and the role of Byzantinising and northern-european gothic influences. Since Roberto Longhi (1934-1935, 1950) modern scholarship has got a critical grasp of the original change Bolognese painting and illumination showed as a result of the epochal turn of the new realism by Giotto in the first half of fourteenth century.
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