HYPNEROTOMACHIA,A title constructed from Greek roots: hypnos (sleep), eros (love), and mache (battle). It translates to "The Battle of Love in a Dream."

The Discourse of the Dream

OF POLIPHILE,

Relating how Love wages battle because of Polia.

Under which fiction the author, demonstrating that all earthly things are but vanity,From the Latin vanitas, referring to the Renaissance theme of the fleeting, empty nature of worldly existence. treats several profitable matters worthy of memory.

Newly translated from the Italian language into French.

AT PARIS.

For Jacques Kerver at the [sign of the] Unicorn, St. James Street.

1561.