The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance : Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its European Context (Anglo-italian Renaissance Studies)

O'Neill, James Calum

Routledge（2024/12発売）

Routledge（2024/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032389851
• DDC分類 853.3

Full Description

Described as 'the most beautiful book ever printed' previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphilo's transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Thresholds of Transformation

2. Self-transformation and Architecture

3. Poliphilo, Connoisseurship and Self-transformation

4. Travel Writing and Topographical Interiority

5. Walking and Self-transformation in the Gardens of Eleuterylida and Telosia

6. Love and Self-transformation in Book I

7. Lovesickness, Honestum, and Initiation in Book II

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index