Francesco Colonna

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream. Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house 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.