Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

89 P&C look for their source to ‘προσηλύτευσις’ found in Ezekiel 14:7 in the Septuagint.65 Giovio, not citing a source, appears to have inferred the term directly from its existing components. In two places, (p6v) and (z4r), Benedetto comments upon recurrences of the word ‘Acinace’, a word of Persian, and ultimately of Arabic origin. 13. p6v: ‘Uno antiquario acinâce una spata torta, da noi detta una scimitarra. Oratio et Val. Flac.’ Daposcia soto questa in un’altra figura qua...

89 P&C look for their source to ‘προσηλύτευσις’ found in Ezekiel 14:7 in the Septuagint.65 Giovio, not citing a source, appears to have inferred the term directly from its existing components. In two places, (p6v) and (z4r), Benedetto comments upon recurrences of the word ‘Acinace’, a word of Persian, and ultimately of Arabic origin. 13. p6v: ‘Uno antiquario acinâce una spata torta, da noi detta una scimitarra. Oratio et Val. Flac.’ Daposcia soto questa in un’altra figura qua...

89 P&C look for their source to ‘προσηλύτευσις’ found in Ezekiel 14:7 in the Septuagint.65 Giovio, not citing a source, appears to have inferred the term directly from its existing components. In two places, (p6v) and (z4r), Benedetto comments upon recurrences of the word ‘Acinace’, a word of Persian, and ultimately of Arabic origin. 13. p6v: ‘Uno antiquario acinâce una spata torta, da noi detta una scimitarra. Oratio et Val. Flac.’ Daposcia soto questa in un’altra figura qua...

89 P&C look for their source to ‘προσηλύτευσις’ found in Ezekiel 14:7 in the Septuagint.65 Giovio, not citing a source, appears to have inferred the term directly from its existing components. In two places, (p6v) and (z4r), Benedetto comments upon recurrences of the word ‘Acinace’, a word of Persian, and ultimately of Arabic origin. 13. p6v: ‘Uno antiquario acinâce una spata torta, da noi detta una scimitarra. Oratio et Val. Flac.’ Daposcia soto questa in un’altra figura qua...