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Annotations
CROSS_REFERENCE (1)MARGINAL_NOTE (1)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Lilio Gregorio Giraldi de diis
gentium”
75
that seems to be confirmed in the initial viewing.29 Yet this identification of a single hand is
complicated by the fact that the annotator cites a text which appeared in print after
Benedetto’s death. This is a reference on (i6r) reading ‘Lilio Gregorio Giraldi de diis
gentium’, namely De diis gentium varia et multiplex historia (Basel: Oporinus, 1548),
published three years after Benedetto’s death in 1545. There is of course a remote possibility
that Benedetto may have read Girald...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 86 (Ch. 4)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Lilio Gregorio Giraldi de diis
gentium”
75
that seems to be confirmed in the initial viewing.29 Yet this identification of a single hand is
complicated by the fact that the annotator cites a text which appeared in print after
Benedetto’s death. This is a reference on (i6r) reading ‘Lilio Gregorio Giraldi de diis
gentium’, namely De diis gentium varia et multiplex historia (Basel: Oporinus, 1548),
published three years after Benedetto’s death in 1545. There is of course a remote possibility
that Benedetto may have read Girald...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 86 (Ch. 4)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Marginal Note
“On the Gods of the Pagans”
tioned in the Bible, and inserted a
chapter-and-verse reference to clarify which of the candidates for ‘Jewish Hiram’ it was. The
Hiram in 1 Kings: 7 is a widow’s son of Naphtali, whom Solomon summoned from Tyre to
cast bases of brass for him. As this inscription is found on the base of a sculpture, the author
may have been drawing a connection between the base which supported twelve statues of
oxen in 1 Kings 7:25 and the base supporting the sculpture of a horse in this image.68
15.
...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 101 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Marginal Note
“On the Gods of the Pagans”
tioned in the Bible, and inserted a
chapter-and-verse reference to clarify which of the candidates for ‘Jewish Hiram’ it was. The
Hiram in 1 Kings: 7 is a widow’s son of Naphtali, whom Solomon summoned from Tyre to
cast bases of brass for him. As this inscription is found on the base of a sculpture, the author
may have been drawing a connection between the base which supported twelve statues of
oxen in 1 Kings 7:25 and the base supporting the sculpture of a horse in this image.68
15.
...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 101 (Ch. 5)