Word: hypnerotomachia
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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...place at the same time Goethe was writing this half it is not at all improbable that he was influenced by these wood-cuts. The most conspicuous coincidence is in regard to the mother scene. Goethe himself when asked where he got his idea said from Plutarch. In the Hypnerotomachia however, there are two wood-cuts, the first showing a rock in which are cut three gates, the inscription over the middle one being "mater amoris," the second showing the meeting of the hero after he had passed through the gate with several woman, one of whom, a motherly looking...
Prof. Francke has written to the Goethe library to find if the Hypnerotomachia is among Goethe's books. In case it is, there is a strong probability that Goethe had these wood-cuts in mind while writing the second half of Faust...
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