Lector si tu desideri intendere breuemente quello che in quest’opa se contiene, Sapi che Poliphilo narra hauere i sono uisto mirade cose, la quale opa ello per vocabulo graeco la chiama pugna d’amor i sono.
(Reader, if you wish to hear briefly what is contained in this work, know that Poliphilo tells that he saw remarkable things in a dream, hence he calls the work in Greek words ‘the strife of love in a dream’.)
your book is waiting for you!
I know, I cannot wait to get hold of it… by the way, did you know that there is another famous building (not far from where you live) that was built following the description of an immaginary palace in the Hypnerotomachia? Actually, both the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford (above) and the “Santa Maria della Salute” Church in Venice are considered by scholars two interpretations of such a description.
Really? I didn’d know that!!!! I was asking myself where I saw that building…in Oxford!!
You certainly did see it in Oxford, despite the few pints we had that day.