Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

81 Gallateo, latteo, γάλα significa il latte (i4v).44 Giovio’s method for the transcription and analysis of Greek terms draws upon three core reference texts, which complement his own intrinsic knowledge. The annotator drew upon Tortelli’s De orthographia for proper rendering of Poliphilesque words of Greek origin into what the annotator presumed to have been their original Greek spelling.45 This text, produced by the founder of the Vatican Library under the commission of Pope Nichola...

81 Gallateo, latteo, γάλα significa il latte (i4v).44 Giovio’s method for the transcription and analysis of Greek terms draws upon three core reference texts, which complement his own intrinsic knowledge. The annotator drew upon Tortelli’s De orthographia for proper rendering of Poliphilesque words of Greek origin into what the annotator presumed to have been their original Greek spelling.45 This text, produced by the founder of the Vatican Library under the commission of Pope Nichola...