Francesco Colonna

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Francesco Colonna

Francesco Colonna (1433(?) – 1527), was an Italian

Italy

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Dominican

Dominican Order

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priest

Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
and monk

Monk

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who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is a romance by Francesco Colonna and a famous example of early printing. First published in Venice, 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 thr...
by an acrostic

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic writing system, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message....
in the text.

Little is known of Colonna. He lived in Venice

Venice

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, and preached at St. Mark's Cathedral. Besides Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he definitely wrote an Italian

Italian language

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epic poem called Delfili Somnium, the "Dream of Delfilo"; this poem went unpublished in his lifetime and was not in fact published until 1959.

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Francesco Colonna (1433(?) – 1527), was an Italian

Italy

Dominican Order

Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
and monk

Monk

Acrostic

Venice

Italian language

Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
of St. John and St. Paul in Venice, but the monastery was apparently not of the strictest observance and Colonna was granted leave to live outside its walls. In Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell is an United States novelist. After graduating from Princeton University in 1998, he and his childhood friend Dustin Thomason co-wrote the semi-autobiographical The Rule of Four, which was published in 2004....
's and Dustin Thomason

Dustin Thomason

Dustin Thomason is an United States writer. He co-wrote the 2004 novel The Rule of Four with his childhood friend Ian Caldwell.The Rule of Four reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, where it remained for more than six months....
's book, The Rule of Four
The Rule of Four

The Rule of Four is a novel written by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, and published in 2004. Caldwell, a Princeton University graduate, and Thomason, a Harvard University graduate, are childhood friends who wrote the book after their respective graduations....
, Francesco Colonna is said to be a Roman, rather than a monk and the true author of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

External links

Colonna, Francesco, Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Love in a Dreame, Translation by R.D., London, 1592. Facsimile ed., introd. by Lucy Gent, 1973, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 9780820111247.
, at MIT Press
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, at Rare Book Room
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