- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804760324
- eISBN:
- 9780804772877
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804760324.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter draws upon a number of alchemical texts to explore the concept of the chemical wedding. As a trope, the chemical marriage has been read into one lineage of onieric, or what some authors ...
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This chapter draws upon a number of alchemical texts to explore the concept of the chemical wedding. As a trope, the chemical marriage has been read into one lineage of onieric, or what some authors term steganographic, texts, from the Romance of the Rose through The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499; and in turn, through the French Renaissance “alchemical” readers Jacques Gohory (in his Commentaire du Livre de la Fontaine Périlleuse of 1572) and former goldsmith/engraver Béroalde de Verville (in his “transcription” of Colonna's text, the Tableau des riches inventions [1600], as well as in his Voyage des princes fortuneés [1610]).Less
This chapter draws upon a number of alchemical texts to explore the concept of the chemical wedding. As a trope, the chemical marriage has been read into one lineage of onieric, or what some authors term steganographic, texts, from the Romance of the Rose through The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499; and in turn, through the French Renaissance “alchemical” readers Jacques Gohory (in his Commentaire du Livre de la Fontaine Périlleuse of 1572) and former goldsmith/engraver Béroalde de Verville (in his “transcription” of Colonna's text, the Tableau des riches inventions [1600], as well as in his Voyage des princes fortuneés [1610]).
