The art of memory by Frances Yates
By Frances Yates
A progressive e-book approximately mnemonic thoughts, and their relation to the heritage of philosophy, technology, and literature
The historical Greeks, to whom a educated reminiscence used to be of important importance—as it was once to every body ahead of the discovery of printing—created an problematic reminiscence method, in line with a method of impressing "places" and "images" at the brain. Inherited and recorded by way of the Romans, this paintings of reminiscence handed into the eu culture, to be revived, in occult shape, on the Renaissance, and especially via the unusual and noteworthy genius, Giordano Bruno. Such is the most subject of Frances Yates's exact and unique ebook, during which she sheds gentle on such different topics as Dante's Divine Comedy, the shape of the Shakespearian theater, and the historical past of historic structure. other than its intrinsic fascination, this booklet is a useful contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the heritage of philosophy, of technological know-how, and of literature
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