LoginHypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
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The book that inspired Ian Caldwell's bestselling The Rule of Four―discover the secret codes of the best-selling novel! One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999.
It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological romance relating in highly stylized Italian the quest of Poliphilo for his beloved Polia. The author (presumed to be Francesco Colonna, a friar of dubious reputation) was obsessed by architecture, landscape, an
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Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Release date: 6 June 2005
ISBN-10 : 0500285497 | ISBN-13: 9780500285497
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Release date: 6 June 2005
ISBN-10 : 0500285497 | ISBN-13: 9780500285497
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