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Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame: read and explore

The protagonist Poliphilo pursues his beloved Polia through a dreamlike landscape filled…

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Author
Francesco Colonna
Form
novel
Catalog year
1499

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HYPNEROTOMACHIA *** Produced by Louise Hope, Robert Cicconetti and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber’s Note: Typographical errors are listed at the end of the text. Side/footnote labels in lower-case ([a] [b]...) are original; labels supplied by the transcriber are capitalized ([A] [B]...).] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * …

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  1. Before opening the text, read the title and this catalog description: “The protagonist Poliphilo pursues his beloved Polia through a dreamlike landscape filled…” Write one question you hope the reading will answer.
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  3. Choose one unfamiliar word. Guess its meaning from the surrounding words, then check a dictionary or discuss it with a reading partner.
  4. Return to your original question. Explain what the passage answered and what you still need to read to find out.

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