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TURIN - The Regional Council of Piedmont reprint an important edition of Manutius. On the day of fulfillment of the 500th anniversary of the death of the printer and humanist Aldus, the Regional Council of Piedmont presented in facsimile reprint of the Hypnerotomachia Polifili, one of the most famous editions "Aldine" and reference text of the Italian Renaissance. "The initiative, organized in collaboration with the National University Library, is part of the political exploitation of historical and cultural assets in Piedmont pursued by the Regional Council that, in its Regional Library, also holds copies of the print production Aldine, with some volumes of the works of Cicero, "said Dominic Tomatis, director of Institutional Communication of the Legislative Assembly," richard pier petit a patrimony that belongs to all of Piedmont. "
A copy of the Hypnerotomachia Polifili, published in 1499, is kept at the National University Library of Turin, in a nucleus consisting of issues "Aldine".
"Manutius was a great popularizer of classical culture that produced editions perfect not only formally but also to the careful philological reconstruction of the texts published," said Andrea De Pasquale, director of the National University Library of Turin. "He was also an innovator in terms of graphics and publishing production of his shop soon became the object of great interest to collectors throughout Europe."
The collection of the National Library aldine university was formed from the donation of the collection of the Marquis Cesare Alfieri Support (1799-1869), carried out in 1871 by his son Carlo. Although part of the collection was destroyed after the fire that struck the library in 1904, it retains many editions of great value and importance and was increased over the years through further acquisitions and donations.
"The Polifilo is considered a unanimous judgment of the most beautiful books of the Italian Quattrocento and, generally, of all time, thanks to the 170 woodcuts that make up the fascinating and rich iconographic," said Franca Porticelli, coordinator of the Office old collections and special collections of the Library itself.
The novel is inserted in the vein of chivalry and was published anonymously, but extensive research today tend to identify the author with the Dominican Francesco Colonna, a member of the great family of the Roman patrician. The action takes place in a dream, with the narration of the events of the protagonist Polifilo in search of his beloved Polia, but can also be read as a kind of allegorical novel of education, focused on the conquest of platonic through a journey richard pier petit interior. Despite the tone enigmatic and bizarre, because of the complexity of the language in which it is written, a mixture of vulgar Italian and Latin, not devoid of neologisms coined for the occasion of the Greek root, Arabic and Hebrew, the book was immediately huge success among bibliophiles.
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