Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Signature c4v

Folio 20r, Quire c

Folio c4v
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified
Folio c4v
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified

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MARGINAL_NOTE (2)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“Descrittione di Marte”
nhair fern, navelwort and other woodland plants... As I considered this place, it seemed so pleasant, such a perfect dwelling and resort for shepherds, and certainly conducive to singing bucolic songs. (G 70) ‘Descrittione’ is primarily used to identify a cluster of signs which calls for unpacking into its overall argument – in the case of the previous stream, the summum bonum. Chigi also uses the term for when he identifies the unnamed referent of a cluster of signs. For example, on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“Descrittione di Marte”
nhair fern, navelwort and other woodland plants... As I considered this place, it seemed so pleasant, such a perfect dwelling and resort for shepherds, and certainly conducive to singing bucolic songs. (G 70) ‘Descrittione’ is primarily used to identify a cluster of signs which calls for unpacking into its overall argument – in the case of the previous stream, the summum bonum. Chigi also uses the term for when he identifies the unnamed referent of a cluster of signs. For example, on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“declaration”
For example, on (c4v) there is a description of a nude man who remains unnamed. [On a pedestal] was carved a nude man of virile age with a kindly face and signs of great speed. He was seated on a square bench decorated with ancient carvings, and wearing books that were undone from the thigh to the calf, from which protruded two wings, one on each foot. (G 48) Chigi, taking a cue from the text to attempt identify the anonymous man from his attributes, writes ‘Descrittione di Marte’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“declaration”
For example, on (c4v) there is a description of a nude man who remains unnamed. [On a pedestal] was carved a nude man of virile age with a kindly face and signs of great speed. He was seated on a square bench decorated with ancient carvings, and wearing books that were undone from the thigh to the calf, from which protruded two wings, one on each foot. (G 48) Chigi, taking a cue from the text to attempt identify the anonymous man from his attributes, writes ‘Descrittione di Marte’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“Descrittione di Marte”
nhair fern, navelwort and other woodland plants... As I considered this place, it seemed so pleasant, such a perfect dwelling and resort for shepherds, and certainly conducive to singing bucolic songs. (G 70) ‘Descrittione’ is primarily used to identify a cluster of signs which calls for unpacking into its overall argument – in the case of the previous stream, the summum bonum. Chigi also uses the term for when he identifies the unnamed referent of a cluster of signs. For example, on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“Descrittione di Marte”
nhair fern, navelwort and other woodland plants... As I considered this place, it seemed so pleasant, such a perfect dwelling and resort for shepherds, and certainly conducive to singing bucolic songs. (G 70) ‘Descrittione’ is primarily used to identify a cluster of signs which calls for unpacking into its overall argument – in the case of the previous stream, the summum bonum. Chigi also uses the term for when he identifies the unnamed referent of a cluster of signs. For example, on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“declaration”
For example, on (c4v) there is a description of a nude man who remains unnamed. [On a pedestal] was carved a nude man of virile age with a kindly face and signs of great speed. He was seated on a square bench decorated with ancient carvings, and wearing books that were undone from the thigh to the calf, from which protruded two wings, one on each foot. (G 48) Chigi, taking a cue from the text to attempt identify the anonymous man from his attributes, writes ‘Descrittione di Marte’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Marginal Note
“declaration”
For example, on (c4v) there is a description of a nude man who remains unnamed. [On a pedestal] was carved a nude man of virile age with a kindly face and signs of great speed. He was seated on a square bench decorated with ancient carvings, and wearing books that were undone from the thigh to the calf, from which protruded two wings, one on each foot. (G 48) Chigi, taking a cue from the text to attempt identify the anonymous man from his attributes, writes ‘Descrittione di Marte’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 208 (Ch. 8)