, a Venetian dominican, who
died May 17, 1520, in his eightieth year, is chiefly
known by a scarce book, entitled “Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,
” Venice, 1499, fol. There is an edition of 1545,
but none of 1467; the copies which pass for that edition,
are of one or the other above mentioned editions; and the
mistake has arisen from the last leaf, which contained the
elate of the impressions, heing taken out, and the last but
one left; on which is the date of the time when the work
was written. It is a romance filled with mythological
learning, of very little value but for its scarcity and whimsical composition, and has been translated into French by
John Martin, Paris, 1561, fol