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Colonna, Francesco

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COLONNA, FRANCESCO. - Dominican and writer, b. at Treviso ca. 1432 or 1433, d. ca. 1527.

From an acrostic: Poliam frater Franciscus Colonna peramavit, he is considered the author of the singular novel Hypnerotomachia Polypilili (The Strife of Love in a Dream, or The Dream of Poliphilus), completed in 1467 and printed in 1499 from the presses of Manutius, adorned with engravings, a masterpiece of the book art of the Renaissance. The imaginative narrative, in a language mixing Italian and Latin, in a curious syncretism of medieval allegorism and pagan mysticism, describes the ideal journey of Poliphilus to win his beloved Polia through the realms of art and freedom, until he comes into the presence of Venus.

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BIBL.: R. Zagaria, A proposito del « Principiato stylo » della « Hypnerotomachia Polypilili », e due congetture recenti, in Giorn. stor. della lett. it., 41 (1903), pp. 454-56; P. Molmenti, Alcuni documenti concernenti l'autore della Hypnerotomachia Polypilili, in Arch. stor. ital., 5ª serie, 38 (1906), pp. 291-314; R. Barraud, Essai de bibliographie du « Songe de Polypilili », in Bibliophilia, 15 (1913-14), pp. 21-29, 121-34, 186-95, 217-20; F. Flora, Storia della lett. ital., I, 2ª ed., Milano 1948, pp. 551-57.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 21.

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Prati, Raffaello. “Colonna, francesco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 21. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/colonna-francesco.

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Prati, Raffaello. “Colonna, francesco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 21. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/colonna-francesco.

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  author    = {Prati, Raffaello},
  title     = {Colonna, francesco},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {21},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/colonna-francesco}
}

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