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This fantastical illustration is from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a famous Renaissance text first published in Venice in 1499 by the printer Aldus Manutius. The title translates roughly to The Dream of Poliphilo’s Struggle for Love. The page is marked “SOGNO” (Italian for “dream”), indicating it is part of one of the surreal dream sequences that make up the book’s narrative.

The woodcut depicts a hybrid chimera-like monster composed of multiple symbolic elements: a bearded human face, scaled reptilian body, wings, serpents, and heads of other beasts emerging from its shoulders. These grotesque creatures are emblematic of the dream world’s allegorical and psychological terrain, rich in symbolism related to desire, fear, and transformation.

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