دانلود کتاب Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Translation into modern-day English by Joscelyn Goodwin of the 15th century italian renaissance masterwork.
EXACTLY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS after its first publication (1499), by the great Venetian printing house of Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna’s weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was translated into English and reprinted in full, together with all of its 174 original — and enchanting — woodcut illustrations. It has been called the first stream-of-consciousness novel, and is one of the most important documents of Renaissance imagination and fantasy. 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 woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas on both buildings and gardens.|This translation was first published in 1999 in a large format that exactly matched the original in size, design and typography. This new edition reproduces the first in everything but size — it is about a third smaller. It retains all the text and illustrations and is easy to handle and read. Long prized by bibliophiles, pored over by generations of scholars, this classic book may now gain the wider audience its melancholy genius merits.