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https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/leon-battista-albertis-hypnerotomachia-poliphili
>>2648692
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/leon-battista-albertis-hypnerotomachia-poliphili
"the book is the legacy of a humanist passionate about his life's work, a treatise on the role of dreamwork in design by one of the most creative minds of the Renaissance, and a manifesto in defense of humanism by a man who had been dismissed by an anti-humanist pope after a thirty-year career in the papal service."
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/leon-battista-albertis-hypnerotomachia-poliphili
The story is structured on this basic metaphor:
That the "building" is a desirable, erotic, body.