One of the designs for Labirinto della Masone which was not executed

One of the most precious printed books in history is the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", published by Aldus Manutius in 1499 in Venice. This allegorical text played a fundamental role in concretizing the project of Franco Maria Ricci’s Labyrinth, which was still very vague in the Nineties. The “Hypenerotomachia” is teeming with gardens and labyrinths and the island of Kythera is described as the epicenter of all these delights. An architecture student from Turin, Davide Dutto, asked Franco Maria Ricci to collaborate in the digital reconstruction of the island of Kythera, as it had been described in the precious incunabulum of Manutius. It was therefore the Polifilo to inspire Ricci, who for some time dreamed of the unachievable idea of building a faithful equivalent of the Island of Kythera.