⌂ The Dream Garden
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili · Venice, 1499

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The vocabulary the dream is built from — the orders and members of its architecture, the parts of its gardens, the aesthetic terms its describers reach for, and the faculties of the soul its sights act upon.

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