Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

tain passages with directions which bear a resemblance to stage directions. In passages of long dialogue in which the speaker can be confused, Chigi records the speaker and the addressee, in notes such as ‘Parole di Polia à Poliphilo’ (k1v), (n8v): ‘Parole del Antista’ (The High Priestess in the liturgical sequence) (n8v), and ‘Parole di Cupido a Poliphilo e Polia’ (r6r). Chigi also records Poliphilo’s inner dialogue with the phrase ‘Parole di Poliphilo da se stesso’ on (i7v), (k2v), and ...

tain passages with directions which bear a resemblance to stage directions. In passages of long dialogue in which the speaker can be confused, Chigi records the speaker and the addressee, in notes such as ‘Parole di Polia à Poliphilo’ (k1v), (n8v): ‘Parole del Antista’ (The High Priestess in the liturgical sequence) (n8v), and ‘Parole di Cupido a Poliphilo e Polia’ (r6r). Chigi also records Poliphilo’s inner dialogue with the phrase ‘Parole di Poliphilo da se stesso’ on (i7v), (k2v), and ...

cation in which a Greek translation of a Latin word, rendered in Latin letters, is then used in order to invoke a literary reference. This recognition of the author’s literary sources is another manifestation of the annotator’s remarkable familiarity with texts. He brings in the sources gently, not as an external reader who has experienced that spark of recognition at recognising a source, but as one close to the author who has used that very source in composing this passage. Detail, ...

222 On m1v, we find an extension inserted into the line itelf, marked by a symbol of insertion consisting of two lines culminating in a circle. (m1v) Heu me misero questo cusigraue amore tropo me molesta piu che la graue InarimeTypone > Heu me misero questo cusigraue a more tropo piu me molesta <che non infestaua la pestilenza á Lucio: me preme [more than the pestilence infected Lucius, it took me]> piu che la graue Inarime Typone io me consummo in flamma nutrientime, et la exuber...

222 On m1v, we find an extension inserted into the line itelf, marked by a symbol of insertion consisting of two lines culminating in a circle. (m1v) Heu me misero questo cusigraue amore tropo me molesta piu che la graue InarimeTypone > Heu me misero questo cusigraue a more tropo piu me molesta <che non infestaua la pestilenza á Lucio: me preme [more than the pestilence infected Lucius, it took me]> piu che la graue Inarime Typone io me consummo in flamma nutrientime, et la exuber...