Francesco Colonna (writer)
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Francesco Colonna (1433(?) – 1527), was an Italian Dominican priest and monk who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic in the text.
Little is known of Colonna. He lived in Venice, and preached at St. Mark's Cathedral. Besides Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he definitely wrote an Italian epic poem called Delfili Somnium, the "Dream of Delfilo"; this poem went unpublished in his lifetime and was not in fact published until 1959. Colonna spent part of his life in the monastery of St. John and St. Paul in Venice, but the monastery was apparently not of the strictest observance and Colonna was granted leave to live outside its walls. In Ian Caldwell's and Dustin Thomason's book, The Rule of Four, Francesco Colonna is said to be a Roman, rather than a monk and the true author of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
See also
- Colonna family
- Dominican Order
- Thelema
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- List of anonymously published works
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Hiberno-Latin
- Macaronic language
- Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Jean Goujon
- French Renaissance literature
- François Béroalde de Verville
- Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
- Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing
- Sacred and Profane Love
- Achille Bocchi
- Gardens of the French Renaissance
- Italian Renaissance garden
