La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo
Subtitle: cioè pvgna d'amore in sogno, dou'egli mostra, che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che sogno, & doue narra molt'altre cose degne di cognitione
Edition: Ristampo di novo, et ricorretto con somma diligentia, à maggior commodo de i lettori.
Publisher: In Casa de' Figliovoli di Aldo
Published: 1545
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: Allegories; Early works to 1800; Classical antiquities; Dreams; Gardens in literature; Renaissance Gardens
Other titles: Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo :; Sogno di Polifili.
Work titles: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Notes: An acrostic in Latin through chapter initials provides the author's name: Poliam frater Franciscvs Colvmna peramavit. Khomentovskaia however, has attributed the work to Felice Feliciano.

Latin half-title: Poliphili hypnerotomachia, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna comemorat. (leaf a1).

Printing house derived from colophon, printer's device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.

Signatures: [pi]⁴a-y⁸z¹0A-E⁸F⁴. e1, s2 missigned respectively as c, S2, k as K.

Text on n1v and n8r transposed, correct page for n1v begins, "gitauano, ...".

Italian text originally issued in 1499 with Latin title: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

Woodcuts are those of the 1499 Aldine ed. with the exception of 6 which are recuttings.

Colophon: In Vinegia, nell'anno M.D.XLV. In casa de'figlivoli di Aldo.

Khomentovskaia, A. Felice Feliciano ... In: Bibliofilia, XXXVII, cahiers 4-5, XXXVIII, cahiers 1-4.

Donati, L. Diciamo qualche cosa del Polifillo (!) In: Maso Finiguerra, III (1938), p. 70-96.

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 131.

Sander 2057.

Lib. copy from the library of Ger. Mse D'Adda, with bookplate..

Lib. copy from the library of WA Foyle, Belleigh Abbey, in gold lettering on a leather bookplate, inside front cover.

Leaves containing p. [3-4] & [5-6] transposed in binding.

Lib. copy binding is red morocco with gold tooling, cover ornament is an anchor with a dolphin & 'Aldus.'