Francesco Colonna: Biografia e Opere. M. T. Casella , G. Pozzi

Speculum ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-267
Author(s):  
Donald Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Francesco Colonna

A NEW FRANCESCO COLONNA

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Francesco Colonna

The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Image, Text, and Vernacular Poetics

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 1222-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Trippe
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Francesco Colonna

Illustration and text in theHypnerotomachia Poliphili(Venice, 1499) have been long considered intricately related yet the book's ornate, invented language has made study of such interaction difficult. This essay reconsiders their connections through a close analysis of two woodcuts and accompanying text in light of the poetical-rhetorical conventions of contemporary Petrarchan imitation in Italy. This reveals how Francesco Colonna visually and textually adapted, in a playful way, traditional subjects of vernacular lyric poetry: the beauty of the poet's beloved, and the lover's own emotions, characterized through metaphor and other tropes.

scholarly journals Doxamachia Restituo: From Commedia to Hypnerotomachia by way of Ibn Rushd

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh London
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Francesco Colonna

This paper reflects on the philosophical traditions that would enable the artistic integration of Classical themes and values into the cultural-climate of Quattrocento and 15th century Europe. I posit that Dante’s Divine Comedy leverages the philosophical legacy of Averroes to reconcile Classical and Christian value-systems, subordinating the creative and cultural accomplishments of the former in anagogical service to the ethical and theological revelations of the latter. I argue that this project of philosophical synthesis exerts a direct influence on the intellectual and aesthetic contours of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a late 15th century text attributed to one Francesco Colonna.

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