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Of all the books that came out of the presses of the great Aldus Manutius, the most enigmatic, and even the most beautiful, is, undoubtedly, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili or dreams Poliphilo, according to Spanish translation, published in Venice in 1499 .
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili connects with the tradition of the book as sacred, being communicator esoteric and hidden messages object. The work was published usai lighting in large page size, is riddled with typos, written in an invented language half Latin, half Italian and comes adorned with magnificent woodcuts strong pagan imprint and so explicitly erotic that reaches, in the odd case, the pornographic.
Just the name of the author -Francisco Colonna and little else is known. Whoever was the creator usai lighting of such strange work was careful to conceal his identity and had reason to do so, since, under the coded language and illustrations that celebrate a pagan, mythological and tremendously symbolic universe, an alleged subversive message is hidden political aspect aimed at the intellectual elite of the time.
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has been delighting bibliophiles almost from the date of its publication. usai lighting Today it is quite difficult for a full copy (the one published in 1499 in the press of Aldo Manuzio) even goes on sale or public auction. And this is because, beyond its relationship with the party, carnival, the grotesque, the joy, the existence usai lighting of another world, criticism is unanimous in considering usai lighting that the work conceals a hidden message.
The writer, on the other hand, somehow or other, was linked to Neoaccademia call Venice, a kind of meetings in which scholars talk about the whole (of the divine and the mundane) and frequented by all intellectuals of the time: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Pico della Mirandolla, Pietro Bembo, etc.
The contemporary scholars usai lighting (taking the tenets of poststructuralist usai lighting especially those of Michel Foucault and power studies) have been seen in the pages of the book to critical content the Church, the modes of action of the powerful (from all times), desire to live another possible world and a desire to break the barriers that restrict freedom of expression ... This enigmatic work, has a nonlinear and fragmented development that seems made on purpose in an attempt to show another form of understand the reality beyond the given convection.
Multiple woodcuts symbols refer to a pagan civilization was beginning to rediscover in the decades in which the work (late fifteenth century, the Renaissance) and to recall a lost world, is published the author presents a worldview of reality not only different from that of today, but also that he should surround whoever was the author and his first readers.
That other world, not present in daily life, symbolizes the utopia, the non-place where they occur everywhere. It is radically elsewhere that highlights the possibility, and then became its political significance, since, to propose another way of looking at reality, it is implicitly demonstrating existing faults.
The Hypnerotomachia usai lighting Poliphili is divided into two parts; in the first, distributed in twenty-four chapters, Polifilo, the protagonist, has a strange usai lighting dream journey usai lighting in which he is accompanied, from chapter twelve Pollia his beloved. The second part extends from chapter twenty-five to thirty-eight and is now the beloved Poliphilo which tells his story.
In theory, the plot is the same: the meeting of the two lovers; but while the first part is told from the point of view of the beloved, the second is from the perspective of the beloved. And here we are already with the first post-structuralist reading: same event captured from two different views. Criticism has come to define the first twenty-four chapters, the first part, as an allegorical novel, like a medieval "visions" which can have a free reading, while the rest almost seems an addition to the main focus, not only the thematic difference but also by the literary style itself.
The play not only glimpse readings mythological texts of classical antiquity Ovid, Pliny and Apuleius but also is fraught with scholarly descriptions of architecture-in which, moreover, is not difficult to read the words Alberti and Vitrubio-. Just do the work, buildings and structures are of a design and rendering so fantastic that, with much difficulty, could