I'm trying to figure out how to count syllables in medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas. I've tried to find it in the book A poesía lírica galego-portuguesa by Giuseppe Tavani, which I found in my university library. It's a little difficult book for me to understand because it's written in Galic...

A short story written in the first person where scientist takes and unintelligent man and gives him a wonder drug, the man steadily gets more intelligent through the story but then relapses, detailing his rise and fall in a diary