Tamara Griggs Unreviewed (LLM_ASSISTED)
Tamara Griggs's 1998 study argues that the HP should be understood as the culmination of fifteenth-century Italian antiquarianism rather than as Romantic escapism. She traces the HP's verbal and visual strategies to Cyriacus of Ancona's commentaria and mid-century antiquarian manuscript collections, positioning the book within the material and intellectual culture of Renaissance archaeology.
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Promoting the Past: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili as Antiquarian Enterprise
Griggs argues that the HP should be understood as the culmination of fifteenth-century Italian antiquarianism rather than as a Romantic escape into an idealized classical past. She traces the book's verbal and visual strategies to specific precursors, particularly the commentaria of Cyriacus of Ancona and the mid-century antiquarian sylloge, identifying these as the closest archetypes for Colonna's enterprise. The article reframes the HP as an active participant in the emergent culture of antiquarian connoisseurship and courtly self-promotion through classical display.
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