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The original work on which this book is based is supposed to have been written in the 15th century by a Dominican monk named Francisco Colonna under the title of Poliphili Hypnerotomachia (Dream-love-strife of Poliphilo) and published in Venice. It is apparently an allegorical love story of the Italian Renaissance. Linda Fierz-David summarizes and interprets the text of the tale in an interesting way according to Jungian concepts. The original Hypnerotomachia exerted a wide influence on the thinkers of the time and had a particular interest for the alchemists, and