Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Robert Dallington Historical Figure Unreviewed (LLM_ASSISTED)

Robert Dallington (c. 1561-1637), an English diplomat and writer, produced the first English adaptation of the HP in 1592, signing it 'R.D.' Semler (2006) reframes Dallington's Hypnerotomachia not as a failed translation but as deliberate cultural appropriation, adapting the HP's Catholic and Italian content for Protestant antiquarian interests in Elizabethan England.

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