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Francesco Colonna

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'''Francesco Colonna''' (1433 (?) - 1527), was an Italy Italian Dominican Order Dominican priest and monk who was credited by an acrostic in the text with the authorship of the ''Hypnerotomachia Poliphili''. Little is known of Colonna. He lived in Venice, and preached at St Mark's Cathedral there. Besides ''Hypnerotomachia Poliphili'', he definitely wrote an Italian language Italian epic poem called ''Delfili Somnium'', the "Dream of Delfilo;" this poem went unpublished in his lifetime and was not in fact published until 1959.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.

The "Other" Francesco Colonna
There presumably existed a second Francesco Colonna in the Colonna family of Rome. It has been speculated that this "other" Colonna composed the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili{{citation needed}}. While much is known of the illustrious Colonna family, Francesco Colonna is lost to obscurity. Category:Dominicans Colonna, Francesco Category:1433 births Colonna, Francesco Category:1527 deaths Colonna, Francesco de:Francesco Colonna it:Francesco Colonna (scrittore)