Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

nce the printed text with manuscript material. A more qualitative observation to supplement Fumagalli’s case is the almost defensive concern the annotators exhibit for portraying Polia as an entirely allegorical figure. In presenting Poliphilo’s beloved as pure symbolism, they protect against any association of Polia with a real woman with whom Colonna could have had an illicit relationship with the veil of allegory. Both A and C present Polia solely as a personification of virtue on ...

nce the printed text with manuscript material. A more qualitative observation to supplement Fumagalli’s case is the almost defensive concern the annotators exhibit for portraying Polia as an entirely allegorical figure. In presenting Poliphilo’s beloved as pure symbolism, they protect against any association of Polia with a real woman with whom Colonna could have had an illicit relationship with the veil of allegory. Both A and C present Polia solely as a personification of virtue on ...

nce the printed text with manuscript material. A more qualitative observation to supplement Fumagalli’s case is the almost defensive concern the annotators exhibit for portraying Polia as an entirely allegorical figure. In presenting Poliphilo’s beloved as pure symbolism, they protect against any association of Polia with a real woman with whom Colonna could have had an illicit relationship with the veil of allegory. Both A and C present Polia solely as a personification of virtue on ...

nce the printed text with manuscript material. A more qualitative observation to supplement Fumagalli’s case is the almost defensive concern the annotators exhibit for portraying Polia as an entirely allegorical figure. In presenting Poliphilo’s beloved as pure symbolism, they protect against any association of Polia with a real woman with whom Colonna could have had an illicit relationship with the veil of allegory. Both A and C present Polia solely as a personification of virtue on ...