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Exactly 500 years after its first publication, by the great Venetian publishing house of Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", was translated into English and reprinted in full, together with all of its 174 original woodcut illustrations. It has been called the first "stream of consciousness" novel and was one of the most important documents of Renaissance imagination and fantasy. The author - presumed to be a friar of dubious reputation - was obsessed by architecture, landscape and costume (it is not going to far to say sexually obsessed) and its woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas on both buildings and plants. This translation was first published in 1999 in a facsimile format. This new edition reproduces everything about one third smaller, retaining all the text and illustrations, and is easy to handle and read.
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''Godwin has confronted the demands of Poliphilo's 'strife of love in a dream' with subtle skill.''
''A wonderful translation of an extraordinary book....Creates a whole other world. Fun to read aloud.''
''As a window into early Renaissance involvement with antiquity, there may be nothing better....The long-awaited and very readable translation of a curious Renaissance book.''
''A volume that should undoubtedly find a place in every serious English-speaking academic library.''
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Joscelyn Godwin is Professor of Music at Colgate University, New York, and has made a considerable contribution to intellectual history through his books on the 17th-century occult philosophers Robert Fludd and Athansius Kircher, on the history of Theosophy, on the spiritual dimension of music and most recently The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0500511047
- ISBN 13 9780500511046
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages496
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