The first sentence of Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History credits a 2002 encounter with this book for inspiring him to embark on that history. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1499 “pagan, pedantic, erotic [and] allegorical” dream-novel possibly written by the friar Francesco Colonna. Most Renaissance intellectuals read this book, whose esoteric scenes were illustrated with 174 woodcuts.
ANSWER: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili [accept Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus]
[10m] Moore speculates Hypnerotomachia influenced Rabelais and the author of this encyclopedic 1621 book narrated by Democritus Junior. This nominal medical treatise considers “causes” and “cures” of its title state.
ANSWER: The Anatomy of Melancholy (by Robert Burton)
[10e] Late in Hypnerotomachia, this figure acts as the boatman taking Poliphilo to Cythera. In a story from The Golden Ass, a mortal woman uses a lamp to finally view the face of this deity, her lover.
ANSWER: Cupid
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