This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory - created by an oral culture - reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.
This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory - created by an oral culture - reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.
List of Illustrations Colour Plates Preface CHAPTER ONE Making Knowledge Visible: The Accademia Veneziana 1 Federico Badoer and the Founding of the Accademia Veneziana 2 The Editorial Program: The New Vernacular Literature and 'Ancient Knowledge' 3 The Structure of the Visual Encyclopedia 4 The Places of Knowledge: The Library and the Palazzo 5 The Academy's Political Aspirations 6 The Collapse of the Academy CHAPTER TWO Trees of Knowledge and Rhetorical Machines 1 The Easy Road to Knowledge or the Joy of Method 2 The Tables of Sacred and Profane Rhetoric 3 The Map of Possible Texts 4 Orazio Toscanella: The Intellectual as Teacher and Publishe 5 Against Pedants and in Support of the Vernacular and Useful, Helpful Books 6 The Labyrinth of Words and the Order of the Library 7 Rhetoric Machines 8 The Art of Memory: Access to Rhetoric Machines 9 Machines Used to Construct Sermons CHAPTER THREE Memory Games 1 The Game of Imitation 2 The Metamorphosis of Writing: Calligraphy, Ciphers, and the Rebus 3 Ciphered Codes and Images of Memory: The Model of the Machine and the Fascination with Secrets 4 Games That Generate Texts 5 Texts That Produce Games CHAPTER FOUR Body and Soul: The Nature of Images 1 The Map of the Soul and Medicine for Memory 2 The Power of Imagination and the Toil of Forgetting 3 The Phantasmata of Eros and Images of Memory 4 The Window Opening onto the Heart 5 The Theatre of Passions between Memory, Rhetoric, and Physiognomy 6 The Body and the Text CHAPTER FIVE How to Translate Words into Images: Memory and Invention 1 The Memory of Images and Iconological Repertories 2 The Places of Memory and Topical Places 3 The Text as a Building 4 Doni's Theatre: An Illusionistic Game 5 Poems and Galleries: The Metaphors Used by Galileo the Literary Critic 6 How to Translate a Narrative into a Cycle of Images 7 The Illustrated Book 8 Biography and Portraiture 9 Memory and Invention: Francesco Sansovino and Pirro Ligorio CHAPTER SIX The Art of Memory and Collecting 1 Samuel Quicchelberg's Theatre and the Metaphors of Memory 2 Collecting and the Art of Memory: Shared Mythology 3 The Collection as a Theatre of Memory 4 Treatises on Memory and the Model of the Collection 5 Dolls and Wax Images 6 The Wunderkammer and the Internal Castle Notes Index
List of Illustrations Colour Plates Preface CHAPTER ONE Making Knowledge Visible: The Accademia Veneziana 1 Federico Badoer and the Founding of the Accademia Veneziana 2 The Editorial Program: The New Vernacular Literature and 'Ancient Knowledge' 3 The Structure of the Visual Encyclopedia 4 The Places of Knowledge: The Library and the Palazzo 5 The Academy's Political Aspirations 6 The Collapse of the Academy CHAPTER TWO Trees of Knowledge and Rhetorical Machines 1 The Easy Road to Knowledge or the Joy of Method 2 The Tables of Sacred and Profane Rhetoric 3 The Map of Possible Texts 4 Orazio Toscanella: The Intellectual as Teacher and Publishe 5 Against Pedants and in Support of the Vernacular and Useful, Helpful Books 6 The Labyrinth of Words and the Order of the Library 7 Rhetoric Machines 8 The Art of Memory: Access to Rhetoric Machines 9 Machines Used to Construct Sermons CHAPTER THREE Memory Games 1 The Game of Imitation 2 The Metamorphosis of Writing: Calligraphy, Ciphers, and the Rebus 3 Ciphered Codes and Images of Memory: The Model of the Machine and the Fascination with Secrets 4 Games That Generate Texts 5 Texts That Produce Games CHAPTER FOUR Body and Soul: The Nature of Images 1 The Map of the Soul and Medicine for Memory 2 The Power of Imagination and the Toil of Forgetting 3 The Phantasmata of Eros and Images of Memory 4 The Window Opening onto the Heart 5 The Theatre of Passions between Memory, Rhetoric, and Physiognomy 6 The Body and the Text CHAPTER FIVE How to Translate Words into Images: Memory and Invention 1 The Memory of Images and Iconological Repertories 2 The Places of Memory and Topical Places 3 The Text as a Building 4 Doni's Theatre: An Illusionistic Game 5 Poems and Galleries: The Metaphors Used by Galileo the Literary Critic 6 How to Translate a Narrative into a Cycle of Images 7 The Illustrated Book 8 Biography and Portraiture 9 Memory and Invention: Francesco Sansovino and Pirro Ligorio CHAPTER SIX The Art of Memory and Collecting 1 Samuel Quicchelberg's Theatre and the Metaphors of Memory 2 Collecting and the Art of Memory: Shared Mythology 3 The Collection as a Theatre of Memory 4 Treatises on Memory and the Model of the Collection 5 Dolls and Wax Images 6 The Wunderkammer and the Internal Castle Notes Index
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