The groups of letters overlaid on the figures can be read independently, contain their own message, and have their own Latin metric. Therefore, they are to be read twice—once by themselves and once together with the “field” of the poem. They receive the name of versus intexti, where ...
The groups of letters overlaid on the figures can be read independently, contain their own message, and have their own Latin metric. Therefore, they are to be read twice—once by themselves and once together with the “field” of the poem. They receive the name of versus intexti, where ...