"Meliadò’s edition satisfies a in the field of classical philology. It constitutes an undoubtedly useful instrument not only for those who are interested in the exegesis of Aelian’s text, but also to the scholars dealing with the history of the classical tradition. Meliadò makes available for the first time a large of scholiastic material surely put together in the scholarly circle of Maximus Planudes and his disciples, thus providing new data for the history of classical scholarship in the crucial period of the end of the XIII century and the first decades of the XIV . [...] All in all, the author has produced an excellent edition that will prove useful to both Classical and Byzantine scholars."