Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

conditioning force of local loyalty to Pliny. As one instance of this practice, the annotator placed a dot of interest next to the word ‘Vincapervinca’ in the following phrase, apparently intending to return to explicate the phrase, but unable to do so. Gli quali regulatamente dispositi sopra le gratiose praeripie, et per la planitie dispensati, cum moderata distantia et intercapedine la terra herbida occupavano, piena et vestita della verde Vincapervinca cum gli sui cerulei flori. ...