Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Its Afterlife

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210609.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Renaissance, Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Aby Warburg’s Approach

Abstract

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has been applauded as the most beautifully printed book in the Western Renaissance and the most difficult one to understand. It was once cloaked in mysteries and enigmas, and its influence rippled through literature, art and architecture. It is a love romance of the Italian Renaissance, an encyclopedia in the guise of a novel, and probably the world’s longest book about people dreaming. This paper briefly summarizes its dissemination, influence and the relevant critical views, focusing on its plot, structure, language, rhetoric and other literary characteristics, while making an investigation of its literary genealogy and contemporary inheritance. By analyzing the re-appropriation of the literary formula of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Umberto Eco in his novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, it is argued that excellent worksand brilliant artists can revive our history, tradition and past life, by employing the so-called “Aby Warburg’s Approach”, and thus responding to the issues and concerns of the present age.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guo Quanzhao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Its Afterlife
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 198
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210609.039
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210609.039
ID  - Quanzhao2021
ER  -