Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Enamoured Couple Before Priestess

NARRATIVE E7r · p.421
Enamoured Couple Before Priestess
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Interior scene with columns: the couple kneels before the enthroned priestess at altar.

In the Narrative

Poliphilus and Polia kneel together before the priestess, receiving Venus's formal blessing on their union.

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