Hypnerotomachia Poliphili The Strife of Love in a Dream

Name: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili The Strife of Love in a Dream
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ISBN: 9780500285497

ISBN-10: 0500285497

ISBN-13: 9780500285497

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Francesco Colonna, Joscelyn Godwin

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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 high 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, and costume it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed and its 174 woodcuts are primary source for Renaissance ideas on both buildings and gardens. In 1952 an attempt was made to produce…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 6/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496