Poliphili was developed by Francesco Griffo, Leonardo Di Lena and published by Flanker. Poliphili consists of 8 styles and household bundle options. p > Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, which can be translated in English as "Dreaming Love Battling of Poliphilus", is a romance about a mysterious arcane allegory in which the primary protagonist, Poliphilo, pursues his love, Polia, through a dreamlike landscape. In the end, he is fixed up with her by the "Fountain of Venus".

The author of the book is anonymous, nevertheless, an acrostic formed by the first, elaborately decorated letter in each chapter in the initial Italian checks out "POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCVS COLVMNA PERAMAVIT", which suggests "Sibling Francesco Colonna has actually very much loved Polia". In spite of this hint, the book has likewise been attributed to lots of other authors. The identity of the illustrator is less specific than that of the author.

It was very first released in Venice, in December 1499, by Aldo Manutio. This very first edition provides an elegant and special page design, with fine-tuned woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance design and a refined Roman font style, cut by Francesco da Bologna, which is a modified version of the type used in 1496 for the De Aetna of Pietro Bembo.

The print quality is very high for the time, but nonetheless it provides lots of disparities and imperfections due to the non-ideal inking and adherence of the matrix to the paper. For that factor numerous samples of the original have actually been utilized to produce every single glyph which will result in an appropriate restoration and not a mere and simple reproduction.

Some letters like J, U and W were extrapolated, due to the fact that they are not part of the initial alphabet of the period. Some letters like Q, X, Y, Z and h have been updated to more contemporary versions, however the original shape is accessible by Stylistic Alternates Opentype Function, which also changes the shape of the V and the v.

The original numerals no, one, tree, 4 and 6 have been accompanied by reconstructions of the missing numbers and extended by modern figures. Finally, swashed lower cases and initial scribal abbreviations were also included.

The typeface has actually joined by a coordinating Italic variant, carefully motivated from Aldo Manuzio's 1501 'Vergilius', the very first book printed totally in Italic type by Francesco da Bologna.

Font Family:
· Poliphili Regular
· Poliphili Italic
· Poliphili Bold
· Poliphili Bold Italic
· Poliphili Display Regular
· Poliphili Display Italic
· Poliphili Display Bold
· Poliphili Display Bold Italic

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