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 is a famous example of an incunable (a work of early printing). The work was first published in 1499 in Venice. This first edition has an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance style.

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... Francesco Colonna was proficient in ancient Greek and Latin and well versed in philos- ophy and literature and encompassed an encyclo- paedic notion of ... Colonna's Rime , which includes a critical commen- tary and 491 VITTORIA COLONNA.

The second part of the study concerns Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, again beginning with its own introductory essay and advancing a completely new interpretation of the text.

"Described as 'the most beautiful book ever printed' previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources.