ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO COLONNA (1432-33-C. 1527)
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Add: Leonardus Crassus, Johannes Baptista Scytha and Andreas Maro
1499RCIN 1057947
The allegorical romance Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (loosely ‘Poliphilus’s struggle for love in a dream’) is one of the jewels of Renaissance printing, with an elegant Roman font and high-quality woodcuts in the style of Andrea Mantegna. The close integration of text and image was highly unusual for the period – this was the only illustrated book published by Aldus.