Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

aka Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet. Atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat.

The Strife of Love in a Dream

Author

Francesco Colonna

Language

Italian, Neo-Latin

Year

1499

Country

Republic of Venice

Genre

Novel

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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a book attributed to Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which the main protagonist, Poliphilo, pursues his love, Polia, through a dreamlike landscape. In the end, he is reconciled with her by the "Fountain of Venus".