Discover this wonderful masterpiece of the Renaissance and be tempted to 'music' was one. But just because the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili "?
It all happened by chance, I admit, reading the novel 'The Rule of Four' by Caldwell and Thomason where the protagonist is just the "Poliphili. The American story is not anything particularly exciting in itself, but this book Renaissance generates an incredible charm, enough to push me to deepen my (few) scholars in the field.
So armatomi of courage, I bought the two-volume edition dell'Adelphi, economic (36 €) and made very well, and I dipped in the text and, in particular, notes the absence of which would be impossible to understand its meaning.
A year and a half to read it ... Fortunantamente the second volume contains the Italian translation, since the original is written in a language that is incomprehensible to or difficult to interpret. A Latin maccheronico sometimes embellished with Venetian dialect expressions located in the valley and occasional contamination of ancient greek, do you ...
Complicated, convoluted, to the limits of narcissism, but imbued with a humanistic culture exaggerated to the nth power, where the author does show off his erudition, perhaps unique in human history.
Already, the author ... is one of the great mysteries of this book.
Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius, probably the largest publisher of the time, in 1499, was never given the author's name and then you have wasted the assumptions and speculations about who could have written a text of such classic Acquaintances . There was talk of Leon Battista Alberti, Pico della Mirandola, an Academy of enlightened and guided by Lorenzo the Magnificent, among others, by Francesco Colonna. This name popped up with all'acrostico that evolves from the initial chapters. But even if this Francesco Colonna who was in reality? The most accepted hypothesis today is that of the Venetian friar from the impeccable record of not morality, but there are those who insist, sometimes reaching a real verbal brawl with their opponents, it is the noble birth of Francesco Colonna of Palestrina. In short, a real mystery, like so many others that offer the reader through the pages of the book and which have been given and continue to offer many interpretations.
deserve special mention illustrations that adorn this already valuable book, wood engravings of rare beauty attributed to, among others, the school of Mantegna.
Music
As soon entered the world of Poliphili, I began to imagine the music.
And as I went along with my reading and more ideas that came out of that record immediately by connecting the acoustic guitar and the microphone to my PC, using the software Cool Edit Pro So little by little have blossomed a series of demo very skinny but certainly indicative as harmonic-melodic essence. You could say that what they have emerged is a mix of various styles which clearly show the progressive rock.
The texts have come down almost instinctively in English. This does not mean that one day decides to change the language ... Maybe using the original sentences of the book!
For these 'home recordings' I mainly used a 'jumbo' acoustic Taylor 615, a classic Camps, the solid body Ibanez Musician with the faithful of '69 Music Man amps strictly valve, a plan Roland digital microphone and a Shure SM58. That's all.
The story of the Dream
Our author speaks of Poliphili who dreams of having lost in the woods and in the midst of this dream journey he falls asleep again and starts his dream in the dream. So pass through a series of initial trials to reach his beloved Polia. Between paganism and architecture, metaphors and philosophy, Poliphili undertakes a series of journeys that lead him to describe the unsurpassed skill of architects, painters, sculptors and gardeners classics, as opposed to a contemporary reality poor and unable to learn the lesson that the great the past have handed down.
However, in the next post there will be a summary of the history, essential so that you can get close to music without missing more than has happened at the same Poliphili and me that he was following in the footsteps ...
It all happened by chance, I admit, reading the novel 'The Rule of Four' by Caldwell and Thomason where the protagonist is just the "Poliphili. The American story is not anything particularly exciting in itself, but this book Renaissance generates an incredible charm, enough to push me to deepen my (few) scholars in the field.
So armatomi of courage, I bought the two-volume edition dell'Adelphi, economic (36 €) and made very well, and I dipped in the text and, in particular, notes the absence of which would be impossible to understand its meaning.
A year and a half to read it ... Fortunantamente the second volume contains the Italian translation, since the original is written in a language that is incomprehensible to or difficult to interpret. A Latin maccheronico sometimes embellished with Venetian dialect expressions located in the valley and occasional contamination of ancient greek, do you ...
Complicated, convoluted, to the limits of narcissism, but imbued with a humanistic culture exaggerated to the nth power, where the author does show off his erudition, perhaps unique in human history.
Already, the author ... is one of the great mysteries of this book.
Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius, probably the largest publisher of the time, in 1499, was never given the author's name and then you have wasted the assumptions and speculations about who could have written a text of such classic Acquaintances . There was talk of Leon Battista Alberti, Pico della Mirandola, an Academy of enlightened and guided by Lorenzo the Magnificent, among others, by Francesco Colonna. This name popped up with all'acrostico that evolves from the initial chapters. But even if this Francesco Colonna who was in reality? The most accepted hypothesis today is that of the Venetian friar from the impeccable record of not morality, but there are those who insist, sometimes reaching a real verbal brawl with their opponents, it is the noble birth of Francesco Colonna of Palestrina. In short, a real mystery, like so many others that offer the reader through the pages of the book and which have been given and continue to offer many interpretations.
deserve special mention illustrations that adorn this already valuable book, wood engravings of rare beauty attributed to, among others, the school of Mantegna.
Music
As soon entered the world of Poliphili, I began to imagine the music.
And as I went along with my reading and more ideas that came out of that record immediately by connecting the acoustic guitar and the microphone to my PC, using the software Cool Edit Pro So little by little have blossomed a series of demo very skinny but certainly indicative as harmonic-melodic essence. You could say that what they have emerged is a mix of various styles which clearly show the progressive rock.
The texts have come down almost instinctively in English. This does not mean that one day decides to change the language ... Maybe using the original sentences of the book!
For these 'home recordings' I mainly used a 'jumbo' acoustic Taylor 615, a classic Camps, the solid body Ibanez Musician with the faithful of '69 Music Man amps strictly valve, a plan Roland digital microphone and a Shure SM58. That's all.
The story of the Dream
Our author speaks of Poliphili who dreams of having lost in the woods and in the midst of this dream journey he falls asleep again and starts his dream in the dream. So pass through a series of initial trials to reach his beloved Polia. Between paganism and architecture, metaphors and philosophy, Poliphili undertakes a series of journeys that lead him to describe the unsurpassed skill of architects, painters, sculptors and gardeners classics, as opposed to a contemporary reality poor and unable to learn the lesson that the great the past have handed down.
However, in the next post there will be a summary of the history, essential so that you can get close to music without missing more than has happened at the same Poliphili and me that he was following in the footsteps ...
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