Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

191 in the HP, that of the ‘Gran Porta’ which extends from (c1v-d1v).26 Adjacent to the following passage, Chigi wrote ‘Polifilo comincia a descrivere una superba porta e segue a narrar’. Having thus arrived at this place, my eyes were ravished and filled by the sight of a mighty and rare work of antiquity, and above all by a beautiful portal that was as stupendous and incredible in its artistry and elegant in its lineaments as ever could have been fashioned or finished .Without a dou...

191 in the HP, that of the ‘Gran Porta’ which extends from (c1v-d1v).26 Adjacent to the following passage, Chigi wrote ‘Polifilo comincia a descrivere una superba porta e segue a narrar’. Having thus arrived at this place, my eyes were ravished and filled by the sight of a mighty and rare work of antiquity, and above all by a beautiful portal that was as stupendous and incredible in its artistry and elegant in its lineaments as ever could have been fashioned or finished .Without a dou...

191 in the HP, that of the ‘Gran Porta’ which extends from (c1v-d1v).26 Adjacent to the following passage, Chigi wrote ‘Polifilo comincia a descrivere una superba porta e segue a narrar’. Having thus arrived at this place, my eyes were ravished and filled by the sight of a mighty and rare work of antiquity, and above all by a beautiful portal that was as stupendous and incredible in its artistry and elegant in its lineaments as ever could have been fashioned or finished .Without a dou...

191 in the HP, that of the ‘Gran Porta’ which extends from (c1v-d1v).26 Adjacent to the following passage, Chigi wrote ‘Polifilo comincia a descrivere una superba porta e segue a narrar’. Having thus arrived at this place, my eyes were ravished and filled by the sight of a mighty and rare work of antiquity, and above all by a beautiful portal that was as stupendous and incredible in its artistry and elegant in its lineaments as ever could have been fashioned or finished .Without a dou...