Manutius printer’s mark actors are a dolphin and an anchor. The same allegory is also found in two charts in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. And not to illustrate a popular proverb.
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Beating of the Alchemical Metronome
At the beginning of his dream, Poliphilo has a vision of the entire moving Alchemy machine: fourteen discordant dancers taking origin from their opposite.
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