Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

sly made and consecrated to Venus Physizoa. (G 197) This sculpture at Como was sufficiently striking and widely known as to inspire another work in Venice by Scamozzi.33 Zimmerman suggests that this sculpture was Paolo’s original composition, in contrast to the remainder of the museum’s content which had been 31 Zimmermann, Paolo Giovio, p. 4. 32 Paolo Giovio, Elogia virorum literis illustrium (Basel: Petrus Perna, 1578), f. ...

sly made and consecrated to Venus Physizoa. (G 197) This sculpture at Como was sufficiently striking and widely known as to inspire another work in Venice by Scamozzi.33 Zimmerman suggests that this sculpture was Paolo’s original composition, in contrast to the remainder of the museum’s content which had been 31 Zimmermann, Paolo Giovio, p. 4. 32 Paolo Giovio, Elogia virorum literis illustrium (Basel: Petrus Perna, 1578), f. ...

226 possibly through ‘reverse engineering’ Poliphilesque terms of Greek origin by use of Torriani. Other examples include: a2v: Agrypnia > vigilia a8r: panglypho > tutoreliono b3r: lithogliphi > Saxisculptura d3r: micropsycho > .l. pusilanimo The latiniser also translates the Greek motto on the cloth hanging over the elephant’s brow on the ‘Elephant and Obelisk’ statue, as ‘labor et industria.’ (b7r, G 37). The Sydney hand takes a particular interest in latinizing the symbolic n...

sly made and consecrated to Venus Physizoa. (G 197) This sculpture at Como was sufficiently striking and widely known as to inspire another work in Venice by Scamozzi.33 Zimmerman suggests that this sculpture was Paolo’s original composition, in contrast to the remainder of the museum’s content which had been 31 Zimmermann, Paolo Giovio, p. 4. 32 Paolo Giovio, Elogia virorum literis illustrium (Basel: Petrus Perna, 1578), f. ...

sly made and consecrated to Venus Physizoa. (G 197) This sculpture at Como was sufficiently striking and widely known as to inspire another work in Venice by Scamozzi.33 Zimmerman suggests that this sculpture was Paolo’s original composition, in contrast to the remainder of the museum’s content which had been 31 Zimmermann, Paolo Giovio, p. 4. 32 Paolo Giovio, Elogia virorum literis illustrium (Basel: Petrus Perna, 1578), f. ...

226 possibly through ‘reverse engineering’ Poliphilesque terms of Greek origin by use of Torriani. Other examples include: a2v: Agrypnia > vigilia a8r: panglypho > tutoreliono b3r: lithogliphi > Saxisculptura d3r: micropsycho > .l. pusilanimo The latiniser also translates the Greek motto on the cloth hanging over the elephant’s brow on the ‘Elephant and Obelisk’ statue, as ‘labor et industria.’ (b7r, G 37). The Sydney hand takes a particular interest in latinizing the symbolic n...