Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

‘descrive un altra bella entrata di un theatro.’ (y4v) In this adytum alone the spaces between the columns were not open, but walled in and closed by slabs of the noble stone already mentioned. Thither we proceeded beneath the vault to another open doorway, the top of which was contiguous with a pergoletta, as it is called, of the same height. (G 351) So attuned was he to detail that Chigi even offered praise for a clever method of channelling waste water through a gutter, noting on ...

‘descrive un altra bella entrata di un theatro.’ (y4v) In this adytum alone the spaces between the columns were not open, but walled in and closed by slabs of the noble stone already mentioned. Thither we proceeded beneath the vault to another open doorway, the top of which was contiguous with a pergoletta, as it is called, of the same height. (G 351) So attuned was he to detail that Chigi even offered praise for a clever method of channelling waste water through a gutter, noting on ...