Signature a3v
Folio 3r, Quire a
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38
HIGH Unverified
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38
HIGH Unverified
Vision Reading (Phase 3 deep analysis)
Primary hand: Multiple · Hands: 3 · Type: text_page · Sig: a3v
Transcription Attempts
left_margin_top · Latin · LOW
protese [...] morem [...] ethorium [...]
Opening left margin annotations
left_margin_center · Latin · MEDIUM
Cyclopes [...] terror [...]
'Cyclopes' — the printed text here describes Poliphilo's encounter with terrifying landscape. Reader identifies Cyclopean reference
bottom · Latin · LOW
[...] Latinus [...] sit [...] oportune [...] fons [...] se [...] obtudi [...] forma [...] de [...]
'fons' (spring/fountain), 'forma' (form). Landscape description annotations
Scholarly Significance
Page 6. The 'Cyclopes' annotation shows classical mythological identification. The Cyclops reference connects the HP's fantastic architecture to Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid — the Cyclopean masonry tradition. This is typical humanist reader behavior.
Cross-references: Photo 18 (p.5), Photo 20 (p.7)
Vision reading (Claude Code, Phase 3)
Annotations
INDEX_ENTRY (1)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Timore di Polifilo”
uld note instances of pathos in the HP’s argument. This being said, the only
emotion which Chigi marks is fear, with the words timore and spaventato.
Upon encountering a dragon in an underground tunnel, Chigi writes ‘Polifilo spaventato
dalla vista dal dragone fugge e muove in pericolo ancora nella figura’ and immediately
following, ‘Nota lo spaventato Polifilo’ (d4r). Other episodes of fear include when Poliphilo
is lost in the opening Dark Forest sequence, writing ‘Timore di Polifilo’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 212 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Timore di Polifilo”
uld note instances of pathos in the HP’s argument. This being said, the only
emotion which Chigi marks is fear, with the words timore and spaventato.
Upon encountering a dragon in an underground tunnel, Chigi writes ‘Polifilo spaventato
dalla vista dal dragone fugge e muove in pericolo ancora nella figura’ and immediately
following, ‘Nota lo spaventato Polifilo’ (d4r). Other episodes of fear include when Poliphilo
is lost in the opening Dark Forest sequence, writing ‘Timore di Polifilo’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 212 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Timore di Polifilo”
uld note instances of pathos in the HP’s argument. This being said, the only
emotion which Chigi marks is fear, with the words timore and spaventato.
Upon encountering a dragon in an underground tunnel, Chigi writes ‘Polifilo spaventato
dalla vista dal dragone fugge e muove in pericolo ancora nella figura’ and immediately
following, ‘Nota lo spaventato Polifilo’ (d4r). Other episodes of fear include when Poliphilo
is lost in the opening Dark Forest sequence, writing ‘Timore di Polifilo’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 212 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Timore di Polifilo”
uld note instances of pathos in the HP’s argument. This being said, the only
emotion which Chigi marks is fear, with the words timore and spaventato.
Upon encountering a dragon in an underground tunnel, Chigi writes ‘Polifilo spaventato
dalla vista dal dragone fugge e muove in pericolo ancora nella figura’ and immediately
following, ‘Nota lo spaventato Polifilo’ (d4r). Other episodes of fear include when Poliphilo
is lost in the opening Dark Forest sequence, writing ‘Timore di Polifilo’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 212 (Ch. 8)