Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

that Benedetto made use of up-to-date editions,27 and printing dates indicate that Giovio wrote these marginalia in the final two years of his life. For instance, a characteristic variant reading shows that Giovio used the 1539 Froben of Basel edition of Pliny’s Naturalis historia, which provides a terminus post quem.28 For botany, he quotes the 1542 Basel edition of LeoNaturalis historiaart Fuchs’ De historia stirpium. For anatomy, he cites Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1543) on ...

that Benedetto made use of up-to-date editions,27 and printing dates indicate that Giovio wrote these marginalia in the final two years of his life. For instance, a characteristic variant reading shows that Giovio used the 1539 Froben of Basel edition of Pliny’s Naturalis historia, which provides a terminus post quem.28 For botany, he quotes the 1542 Basel edition of LeoNaturalis historiaart Fuchs’ De historia stirpium. For anatomy, he cites Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1543) on ...