Francesco Colonna
For notes on possible identity of Francesco Colonna, see: Patricia Fortini Brown. Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of Past (New Haven, 1996), pp. 287-90.
Birth date of Francesco Colonna appears to be debated. Beyond Words catalogue does not give life dates. Using the British Museum and Morgan's birth date of 1433.
ULAN only has death date - Colonna, Francesco (Italian monk and author, died 1527)
Note: Author of The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, originally published in 1499.
British Museum has life dates as 1433-1527; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG174520
Met has: Francesco Colonna (Italian, ca. 1453–1517) see https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/365313
Morgan has 1433 - 1527; https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/Renaissance-Venice/Attributed-Francesco-Colonna
British Library has active dates of 1544-1560; https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/ItalianAcademies/PersonFullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=022-000005087
Francesco Colonna (1433/1434 – 1527) was an Italian Dominican priest and monk who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic formed by initial letters of the text.
He lived in Venice, and preached at St. Mark's Cathedral. Besides Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he definitely wrote a Latin epic poem, Delfili Somnium (the "Dream of Delfilo"), which went unpublished in his lifetime and was not published until 1959.[1] Colonna spent part of his life in the monastery of San Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, but the monastery was apparently not of the strictest observance and Colonna was granted leave to live outside its walls. In Ian Caldwell's and Dustin Thomason's novel The Rule of Four, the Roman noble of the same name, Francesco Colonna, is featured as the true author of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.[2]
Francesco Colonna: vol. I Biographia Maria Teresa Casella, vol. II Opere, Giovanni Pozzi (Padua), 1959.
A comparable conclusion was reached in G. Goebel, "Le songe de Francesco Colonna, prince prenestin", Fifteenth Century Studies, Stuttgart, 1983.
Wikipedia, accessed 12/14/2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Colonna_(writer)
