Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

203 so attentive to detail in his inscriptions that in composing an epitaph to a sixteenth-century figure, he asked his librarian Lucas Holstenius to ensure that the epitaph was in perfect period sixteenth-century style.39 It is therefore surprising indeed that in a book with a wealth of pseudo-epigrams, Chigi wrote only one note labelled inscrittione. This note is next to a Greek epigram on (z1r). z1r: ‘inscrittione di una delle colonne del fonte’ ‘On the face of the low wall of b...

203 so attentive to detail in his inscriptions that in composing an epitaph to a sixteenth-century figure, he asked his librarian Lucas Holstenius to ensure that the epitaph was in perfect period sixteenth-century style.39 It is therefore surprising indeed that in a book with a wealth of pseudo-epigrams, Chigi wrote only one note labelled inscrittione. This note is next to a Greek epigram on (z1r). z1r: ‘inscrittione di una delle colonne del fonte’ ‘On the face of the low wall of b...

203 so attentive to detail in his inscriptions that in composing an epitaph to a sixteenth-century figure, he asked his librarian Lucas Holstenius to ensure that the epitaph was in perfect period sixteenth-century style.39 It is therefore surprising indeed that in a book with a wealth of pseudo-epigrams, Chigi wrote only one note labelled inscrittione. This note is next to a Greek epigram on (z1r). z1r: ‘inscrittione di una delle colonne del fonte’ ‘On the face of the low wall of b...

203 so attentive to detail in his inscriptions that in composing an epitaph to a sixteenth-century figure, he asked his librarian Lucas Holstenius to ensure that the epitaph was in perfect period sixteenth-century style.39 It is therefore surprising indeed that in a book with a wealth of pseudo-epigrams, Chigi wrote only one note labelled inscrittione. This note is next to a Greek epigram on (z1r). z1r: ‘inscrittione di una delle colonne del fonte’ ‘On the face of the low wall of b...