imago mundi Draft
CONCEPT
A literary genre presenting an imagined world through a physical journey across a cohesive landscape. The HP follows this tradition, mapping its entire narrative onto a traversable geography.
Why It Matters for the Hypnerotomachia
The HP's narrative structure is an imago mundi: Poliphilo's walk from forest to pyramid to palace to island constitutes a complete imagined world with consistent internal geography.
Why It Matters in Scholarship
Understanding the HP as imago mundi connects it to medieval encyclopedia traditions and to later world-building literature (Morris, Tolkien).
Review Status / Provenance
Draft
- Source method: LLM_ASSISTED
- Confidence: MEDIUM