 After circulating in numerous manuscript copies, Crescenzi's treatise became the first printed modern text on agriculture when it was published in Augsburg by Johann Schüssler in 1471.Some 57 editions in Latin, Italian, French, and German appeared during the following century, as did two editions in Polish.The structure and content of the "Ruralia commoda" is substantially based on the "De re rustica" of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, written in the first century AD, even though this work was not available to de' Crescenzi, and was known only in fragments until a complete version was discovered in a monastery library by Poggio Bracciolini during the Council of Constance, between 1414 and 1418.