Mental Libraries

List of Contributors; Foreword: The Art of Memory and a New Season of Studies; Introduction: Mental Libraries. The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture; PART I: Crafting the Mental Library: Memory Systems and their Cultural Contexts; 1. The Use of Major and Minor Loci in the Liber Memoriae Artificialis by Bartolomeo da Mantova (1429); 2. The Enchantment of Memory: Observations on Giordano Bruno's Cantus Circaeus; 3. Pedagogy of Memory: Albertus Carrara's De Omnibus Ingeniis Augendae Memoriae; 4. "Traduttore, traditore"? How Early Mnemonic Knowledge Is Shaped by Translations; 5. The Body as a Mnemonic Aid for Learning Grammar; 6. Diagrammatizing the Art of Memory: Two Examples of Tree Diagrams in Mnemonic Treatises from the 15th Century; PART II: Reimagining the Mental Library: Cultural and Literary Transformations of Memory; 7. Encyclopedic Mnemonics in Diego Valades' Rhetorica Christiana; 8. The Machiavellian Movement: Acquiring Virtues through the Body; 9. Burton's Mental Library: The Anatomy of Melancholy and the Art of Memory; 10. Mnemotechnics, Vision, and Apocrypha. Sources of imagines agentes in Middle English Drama; 11. Memory in De sacris concionibus recte formandis (Rome, 1543) by Alfonso Zorrilla; 12. The Geography of Memory and Hispanic Poets of the Golden Age; 13. Local Memory and Literary Landscape in Petrarch; Index