Hypnerotomachia; Polyphili; Francesco Colonna, Dominican friar of the Venetian convent SS. Giovanni e Paolo; b. 1433 or 4, d. 1527; usually credited with authorship of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, although this scholar (M. Calvesi) disputes this attribution and claims the author was a different Francesco Colonna (ca. 1453-1517); Ital. Dominikanermönch und Architekturtheoretiker ; Mönch, Italien ; Ital. Dominikanermönch und Architekturtheoretiker; gilt als Autor der Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; anderslt. Geburtsjahr: 1434