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Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38
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Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38
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Vision Reading (Phase 3 deep analysis)
Primary hand: Multiple · Hands: 3 · Type: text_page · Sig: a5r
Transcription Attempts
right_margin · Latin · LOW
oro remedio [...] Curtinus [...] medicinam [...]
'remedio' (remedy), 'medicinam' (medicine). Reader applying medical vocabulary to Poliphilo's condition. 'Curtinus' may be a personal name
right_margin_lower · Latin · LOW
[...] risica [...] excusquor [...]
Faded annotations
bottom_right · Latin · LOW
praecibus [...]
'praecibus' (with prayers). Religious vocabulary
Scholarly Significance
Page 9. Medical vocabulary ('remedio', 'medicinam') applied to Poliphilo's lovesickness and wandering. This medical-philosophical reading of love as a condition requiring remedy connects to Ficinian and Aristotelian traditions of love-theory.
Cross-references: Photo 23 (p.10, sleeping Poliphilo woodcut)
Vision reading (Claude Code, Phase 3)
Annotations
CROSS_REFERENCE (1)INDEX_ENTRY (1)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86)
85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013
86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108–
46.
87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff.
88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86)
85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013
86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108–
46.
87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff.
88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’
This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times.
Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a
rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose
Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items
which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled
‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’
This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times.
Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a
rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose
Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items
which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled
‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86)
85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013
86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108–
46.
87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff.
88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86)
85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013
86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108–
46.
87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff.
88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’
This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times.
Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a
rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose
Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items
which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled
‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’
This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times.
Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a
rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose
Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items
which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled
‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)