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The allegory of love in the early Renaissance : Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its European context / James Calum O'Neill.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PQ4619.C9 Z78 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neill, James Calum, author.
- Series:
- Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series
- Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonna, Francesco, -1527. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
- Colonna, Francesco.
- Colonna, Francesco, -1527--Characters.
- Poliphilo (Fictitious character).
- Poliphilo.
- Love in literature.
- Colonna, Francesco, -1527.
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Colonna, Francesco).
- Characters and characteristics.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 x 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Described as 'the most beautiful book ever printed' previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphilo's transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: O'Neill, James Calum. Allegory of love in the early Renaissance
- ISBN:
- 9781032389820
- 1032389826
- 9781032389851
- 1032389850
- OCLC:
- 1371285345
- Publisher Number:
- 40031886828
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