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 an English version
but the translator gave up. The task has been triumphantly
accomplished by Joscelyn Godwin, who succeeds in reproducing all
its way ward charm and arcane learning in language accessible to
the modern reader.
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