Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto Unreviewed (LLM_ASSISTED)
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto's 2015 study connects the HP's cultivation of meraviglia (wonder) to the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo. She argues that both deploy architectural surprise as a mode of philosophical instruction, creating environments where wonder precedes and enables understanding.
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Not Before Either Known or Dreamt Of: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Craft of Wonder
Fabiani Giannetto examines the HP's relationship to the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo and the Villa d'Este at Tivoli through the lens of Francesco Patrizi's theory of wonderment (meraviglia). She argues that both Colonna and Patrizi independently rejected Aristotelian mimesis in favor of the marvelous as a poetic and meditative goal. By tracing a shared anti-mimetic tradition rather than a direct influence, the essay reframes the HP's fantastical descriptions as deliberate rhetorical strategies for producing wonder rather than verisimilitude.
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