La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo : cioè pvgna d'amore in sogno, dov'egli mostra, che tvtte le cose hvmane non sono altro che sogno, & doue narra molt'altre cose degne di cognitione
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a 1545 Venetian edition by Francesco Colonna, printed by the Aldine heirs as a dreamlike allegorical romance about love and the vanities of human life. Its woodcut illustrations show classical architecture, garden scenes, and ritual gatherings, offering a designer ideas for ornamental borders, column and arch layouts, and the Renaissance decorative vocabulary of its text pages.
