Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Maurizio Calvesi proposed in his 1996 study La pugna d'amore in sogno that the HP was written not by the Venetian Dominican but by a Roman nobleman also named Francesco Colonna. His attribution, based on art-historical and biographical evidence, represents the most sustained challenge to the Casella-Pozzi consensus and has generated significant scholarly debate about the HP's authorial identity and cultural milieu.