Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : the strife of love in a dream /

Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527

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 - [London] : Thames & Hudson, [1999] - xix,474 p. : ill. ; 32cm

With the original woodcut illustrations.

This is a translation into English of the Renaissance text Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a pagan, allegorical, mythological romance relating in Latin the quest of Poliphilo for his beloved Polia. There are 172 woodcuts of gardens and buildings.

9780500019429 9780500019429 £42.00


Architectural writing--Italy--Early works to 1800
Architecture in literature--Early works to 1800
Architecture
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Literary essays
Classic fiction


Love stories.