Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

pieces of illustration. Built so close to the Pope’s own death, featuring an animal associated with prodigious memory, the Pulcino, beyond its initial charming impression, could perhaps be read as an impresa, or a hieroglyph, of Chigi’s own mortality. Noting, in a manner often forgotten, that each page of an incunabulum is not a self-contained unit but part of a two-page spread which forms a visual whole, Kretzulesco-Quaranta considered the elephant and the obelisk on the spread of D5r-...

pieces of illustration. Built so close to the Pope’s own death, featuring an animal associated with prodigious memory, the Pulcino, beyond its initial charming impression, could perhaps be read as an impresa, or a hieroglyph, of Chigi’s own mortality. Noting, in a manner often forgotten, that each page of an incunabulum is not a self-contained unit but part of a two-page spread which forms a visual whole, Kretzulesco-Quaranta considered the elephant and the obelisk on the spread of D5r-...

pieces of illustration. Built so close to the Pope’s own death, featuring an animal associated with prodigious memory, the Pulcino, beyond its initial charming impression, could perhaps be read as an impresa, or a hieroglyph, of Chigi’s own mortality. Noting, in a manner often forgotten, that each page of an incunabulum is not a self-contained unit but part of a two-page spread which forms a visual whole, Kretzulesco-Quaranta considered the elephant and the obelisk on the spread of D5r-...

pieces of illustration. Built so close to the Pope’s own death, featuring an animal associated with prodigious memory, the Pulcino, beyond its initial charming impression, could perhaps be read as an impresa, or a hieroglyph, of Chigi’s own mortality. Noting, in a manner often forgotten, that each page of an incunabulum is not a self-contained unit but part of a two-page spread which forms a visual whole, Kretzulesco-Quaranta considered the elephant and the obelisk on the spread of D5r-...