Il Giardino di Polifilo: ricostruzione virtuale dalla Hypnerotomachia Poliphili di Francesco Colonna stampata a Venezia nel 1499 da Aldo Manuzio

Translation: The Garden of Polifilo: A Virtual Reconstruction from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna, Printed in Venice in 1499 by Aldo Manuzio

by Silvia Fogliati and David Dutto

with an Introduction by Giovanni Mariotti

and Notes by Susy Marcon

FIRST EDITION. Text in Italian. Milan, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci, 2002.

Hardback is overall in NEAR FINE condition with NEAR FINE box.

• ISBN: 8821606686
• Volume features back cloth boards with full-color illustration and gilt lettering on front, as well as gilt lettering on spine. Book has back clam shell box with design and device on front as well as red title label on spine. 
• Boards show minimal dust.
• Binding is secure.
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Box is a little dusty along edges, otherwise shows little to no wear.
• Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear.
• SC20190821

116 pages. 12.75 x 12.75 inches. (square)

Handsome binding features full-color illustration with gilt lettering on front, as well as clamshell box with design and device on front.

This stunning volume presents the virtual reconstruction of one of the most influential architectural works of the 16th century in Italy. Francesco Colonna's idea of the ideal garden, illustrated in his Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, is the most famous incunabulum printed by Aldo Manuzio in Venice in 1499. It also is considered among Renaissance books to have had great influence in architectural choices, but mostly symbolic and ideological, of the sixteenth century garden. The original text and illustrations are preserved with the full-color virtual reconstructions.  

Lavishly illustrated with full-color virtual reconstructions, as well as original B&W illustrations and text.

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