Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame. Francesco Colonna

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       Francesco Colonna

      Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664119551

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       HYPNEROTOMA- CHIA.

       Strife of Loue in a Dreame.

       TO THE THRISE HO-

       To the Right Honourable Robert

       Poliphili hypnerotomachia,

       FINIS.

       Technical Notes and further information

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      The publishers acknowledge their gratitude

       to the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford,

       for their permission to reproduce

       the Library’s copy.

      S.T.C. No.5577

       Collation: A-Z⁴, Aa-Cc⁴

      Published in 1969 by

       Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.,

       O. Z. Voorburgwal 85, Amsterdam

       &

       Da Capo Press

      · a division of Plenum Publishing Corporation ·

      227 West 17th Street, New York. 10011

       Printed in The Netherlands

      HYPNEROTOMA-

       CHIA.

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      THE

Strife of Loue in a

       Dreame.

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      At London,

      Printed for Simon Waterson, and are

      to be sold at his shop, in S. Paules Church-

       yard, at Cheape-gate.

      1592.

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TO THE THRISE HO-

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      NOVRABLE AND EVER LY-

       VING VERTVES OF SYR PHILLIP SYDNEY KNIGHT; AND TO THE

      RIGHT HONORABLE AND OTHERS WHAT-

       SOEVER, WHO LIVING LOVED HIM,

       AND BEING DEAD GIVE HIM HIS DVE.

To the Right Honourable Robert

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      Deuorax, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount

      Hereford, and Bourghchier, Lorde Ferrers of Chartley,

       Bourghchier and Louaine, Maister of the Queenes Maie-

       sties Horse, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter:

      Is wished, the perfection of all happinesse, and tryumphant

       felicitie in this life, and in the worlde

       to come.

      

When I had determined (Right honorable) to dedicate this Booke, to the euerlyuing vertues of that matchlesse Knight Syr Phillip Sydney; me thought that I could not finde out a more Noble personage then your selfe, and more fit, to patronize, shield, and defende my dutie to the deade, then your Honour, whose greatnes is such, and vertues of that power, as who so commendeth them, deserueth not to be accounted a flatterer, but he that doth not the same, may be thought an [v] euill willer. Hovv your Honor vvill accept hereof, I make no doubt, because that curtesie attendeth vpon true nobilitie; but my humble request is, that your Honor may not thinke of me (by the tytle of the Booke,and some part of the discourse) as if I vvere amorous, and did speake according to my ovvne passions, for I beeing restrained of my liberty, and helde in the graue of obliuion, where I still as yet remaine, oppressed with Melancholie, and wearied vvith deeper studies, I vvas glad to beguile the time with these conceits, anothomising in them, the vanitie of this life, and vncertaintie of the delights therof, in the Dreame of Poliphilus; Which if it shall please your Honor at conuenient leysure to looke ouer, pardoning what you finde amisse, and weighing my good will, I shall thinke my selfe most happy.

      And thus I humbly take my leaue, vntill that I may present your Honour, with a matter more fitting the same.

      Your Honors deuoted,

      R. D.

      

Anonymi elegia ad Lec- torem.

Candide Poliphilum narrantem somnia Lector auscultes, summo somnia missa polo,Non operam perdes, non hæc audisse pigebit, tam varijs mirum rebus abundat opus.Si grauis & tetricus contemnis erotica, rerum nosce precor seriem tam bene dispositam.Abnuis? ac saltem stylus & noua lingua novusq; sermo grauis, sophia, se rogat aspicias.Id quoq; sirenuis, geometrica cerne vetusta plurima milliacis disce referta notis.Hic sunt Pyramides, thermæ, ingentesq; Colossi, ac Obeliscorum forma vetusta patet.Hic diuersa basis fulget, variæque columnæ illarumq; arcus, Zophora, epistilia,Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coronæ symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.Hic regum cernes exculta palatia, cultus Nympharum, fontes, egregiasque epulas. [v] Hinc bicolor chorea est latronum, expressaque tota in Laberintheis vita hominum tenebris.Hinc lege de triplici quæ maiestate tonantis dicat, & in portis egerit ipse tribus.Polia qua fuerit forma, quam culta, tryumphos inde Iouis specta quatuor æthereos.Hæc præter varios affectus narrat amoris, atque opera & quantum sæuiat ille Deus.

      

Faultes escaped in the printing.

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