The Rule of Four (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Easter weekend, 1999
- Setting: Princeton, New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Thomas Corelli Sullivan, Charlie Freeman, Gil, Paul Harris, Bill Stein, Katie, Vincent Taft, Richard Curry
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Europe or Europeans, Literature, College life, Fathers, 1990’s, Italy or Italians, Renaissance, Students or student life
- Locales: Princeton, NJ
In 1499, the Venetian humanist scholar-editor Aldus Manutius published a curious book titled Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, which translates as “Poliphilo's battle of love in a dream.” Rarer than the Gutenberg Bible (1455), it is regarded by book lovers as the supreme achievement of the printing press in the fifteenth century because of what Helen Barolini, in Aldus and His Dream Book (1992), calls “the harmony of illustration and text.” The work contains more than two hundred woodcuts by an unknown artist (who signed only one illustration, and that with an enigmatic...
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