Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Stefano Mirti’s Blueberries Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 159/388 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a. 403031883089077.89135.268422276550039&type=3 POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCVS COLVMNA PERAMAVIT, "Brother Francesco Colonna has dearly loved Polia".  (acrostic formed by the first, elaborately decorated letter in each chapter in the original Italian version)

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  • Stefano Mirtis Blueberries

    Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

    159/388

    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.403031883089077.89135.268422276550039&type=3

    POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCVS COLVMNA PERAMAVIT, "Brother Francesco Colonna has dearly loved Polia". (acrostic formed by the first, elaborately decorated letter in each chapter in the original Italian version)

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    1499, Venice

    Unknown Author (Francesco Colonna?), Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

  • Stefanos Blueberries Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 159/388

    1499, Venice

    Unknown Author (Francesco Colonna?), Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

  • Stefanos Blueberries Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 159/388

    1499, Venice

    Unknown Author (Francesco Colonna?), Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

    Hypnerotomachia Poliphili /hipnrotmki plifli/ (from Greek hpnos, sleep, ros, love, and mch, fight), called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream, is a romance said to be by Francesco Colonna and a famous

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    example of early printing. First published in Venice in 1499, in an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance style, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which Poliphilo pursues his love Polia through a dreamlike landscape, and is, seemingly, at last reconciled with her by the Fountain of Venus.

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