| - Book Title: The Art of Memory
- Author: Frances A Yates
- ISBN: 074480020x
- Publisher: Ark Paperbacks
- Year Published: 1984
- Our Normal Price: £44.00 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ark Paperbacks 1984: first of this paperback edition: approximately 5 x 8 inches tall: 400 pages including index: black and white illustrations. Synopsis: A comprehensive history and erudite examination of the Art of Memory, Mnemosyne, from its invention by Simonides to the investigations of the Art in the 20th century. Contents include chapters entitled as follows: – 1) The Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory. 2) The Art of Memory in Greece: Memory and the Soul. 3) The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages. 4) Mediaeval Memory and the Formation of Imagery.5) The Memory Treatises. 6) Renaissance Memory: the Memory Theatre Of Guilio Camillo.7) Camillos Theatre and the Venetian Renaissance. 8) Lullism As an Art of Memory. 9) Geodano Bruno: the Secret of Shadows. 10) Ramism As an Art of Memory. 11) Giordano Bruno: The Secret of Seals. 12) Conflict Between the Bruno and Ramist Memory. 13) Giordano Bruno: Last Works on Memory. 14) The Art of Memory and Brunos Italian Dialogues. 15) The Theatre Memory System of Robert Fludd. 16) Fludds Memory Theatre and the Globe Theatre. 17) The Art of Memory and the Growth of Scientific Method. Condition: cover edges rubbed: small crease upper right cover corner: line increases to spine: paper slightly tanned: overall clean, firm and good
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Used Books
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