Main entry:

Colonna, Francesco, -1527.

Title & Author:

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili = The strife of love in a dream / Francesco Colonna ; the entire text translated for the first time into English with an introduction by Joscelyn Godwin with the original woodcut illustrations.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 1999.

Description:

xix, 474 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
"With the original woodcut illustrations."
Introduction -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- Appendices. Translations of Latin inscriptions in the illustrations, and of Greek in the illustrations and the text ; Significance of the allegorical names ; Glossary of architectural terms ; Diagram of the Isle of Cytherea.
Translated from the Latin.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"It is hard to believe that the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499, one of the most famous books in the world, read by every Renaissance intellectual and endlessly referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, has never appeared in English. One reason, no doubt, is the length and difficulty of the text. 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 and costume - it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed - and its 174 woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas on both buildings and gardens. In 1592 a beginning was made to produce an English version but the translator gave up after only a third of the text. Now, at last, the task has been triumphantly accomplished by Joscelyn Godwin, who succeeds in reproducing all its wayward charm and arcane learning in language accessible to the modern reader."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0500019428
9780500019429

Subject:

Italian literature 16th century Translations into English.
Romances, Italian Translations into English.
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 Translations into English.
Architecture in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Art in literature.
Mythology.
Incunabula as Topic
Dreams
Architecture as Topic.
Architecture dans la littérature.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Art dans la littérature.
Mythologie.
mythology (literary genre)
European literature Renaissance.
Italian literature.
Romances, Italian.
Landscape in literature

Form/genre:

Allegories.
Translations.
Love stories.
Romance fiction.

Added entries:

Godwin, Joscelyn.
Conway, Stephen (Stephen P.), binder.
Artists' Books Collection (Library of Congress)

Strife of love in a dream

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209652
Call No.: PQ4619.C9 H9 1999
Status: Available