num_pages: 208
description: Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's The Rule of Four is already a bookselling phenomenon. The Ivy League superachievers drew upon an authentic 1499 Renaissance text to create their thriller about two Princeton undergraduates who try to unravel the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (pronounced "HIPneROtoMAkia POliFEEli"). The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is an erotic, pagan epic, written in a private language peppered with words taken from Latin and Greek and decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphs. It was not translated into English for 500 years, until 1999, when Joscelyn Godwin finally achieved that nearimpossible task. In The Real Rule of Four , Professor Godwin carefully investigates each aspect of the history of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its use in The Rule of Four , Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of the many beautiful woodcuts in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a foldout color map and photographs of the featured locations at Princeton University, The Real Rule of Four is an indispensable guide to the many fans of Caldwell and Thomason's bestselling novel.
language: English
title: The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to the New York Times #1 Bestseller
titlecomplete: The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to the New York Times #1 Bestseller
characters: Leda (mythology), Adonis (mythology), Mars (God), Girolamo Savonarola, Leon Battista Alberti, Polia, Paul Harris, Pope Paul II, Deucalion, Medusa, Odysseus, Maurizio Calvesi, Charlie Freeman, Poliphilo, Logistica (reason), Zoroaster, Eleanor of Aragon, Pythagoras, Thomas Corelli Sullivan, Katie Marchand, Patrick Sullivan (Rule of Four), Plato, Richard Curry, Eleutherylida, Vincent Taft, Giulio Pomponio Leto, Innocent VIII, Ovid (Roman), Christian Rosenkreutz, Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, Pyrrha, Aldus Manutius, Zeus (god), Bacchus (god), Ceres, Tereus, Priapus, Thelemia (desire), Gil (Preston Gilmore Rankin), Jesus, Francesco Colonna, Pomona (goddess), Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent), Hermes, Diana (goddess), Lucrezia Donati, Psyche (mythology), Philomela, Bill Stein, Cupid, Pope Clement VII, Pope Alexander VI, Jupiter (God), Fortuna (goddess), Desiderius Erasmus, Semele, Venus (goddess), Europa, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
genres: Literature, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, Books About Books
ratings_count: 102
places: Cytherea
publisher: Disinformation Books