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1 online resource (xxv, 332 pages, viii pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Toronto Italian studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-318) and index. |
| Contents |
Making Knowledge Visible: The Accademia Veneziana -- Federico Badoer and the Founding of the Accademia Veneziana -- Editorial Program: The New Vernacular Literature and 'Ancient Knowledge' -- Structure of the Visual Encyclopedia -- Places of Knowledge: The Library and the Palazzo -- Academy's Political Aspirations -- Collapse of the Academy -- Trees of Knowledge and Rhetorical Machines -- Easy Road to Knowledge or the Joy of Method -- Tables of Sacred and Profane Rhetoric -- Map of Possible Texts -- Orazio Toscanella: The Intellectual as Teacher and Publisher -- Against Pedants and in Support of the Vernacular and Useful, Helpful Books -- Labyrinth of Words and the Order of the Library -- Rhetoric Machines -- Art of Memory: Access to Rhetoric Machines -- Machines Used to Construct Sermons -- Memory Games -- Game of Imitation -- Metamorphosis of Writing: Calligraphy, Ciphers, and the Rebus -- Ciphered Codes and Images of Memory: The Model of the Machine and the Fascination with Secrets -- Games That Generate Texts -- Texts That Produce Games -- Body and Soul: The Nature of Images -- Map of the Soul and Medicine for Memory -- Power of Imagination and the Toil of Forgetting -- Phantasmata of Eros and Images of Memory -- Window Opening onto the Heart -- Theatre of Passions between Memory, Rhetoric, and Physiognomy -- Body and the Text -- How to Translate Words into Images: Memory and Invention -- Memory of Images and Iconological Repertories. |
| Summary |
Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original incarnation as La stanza della memoria: Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'et+ della stampa, published by Einaudi of Torino in 1995, Bolzoni's study has been praised by critics and ranked with the classic texts in its field - those by Paolo Rossi, Frances Yates and Mary Carruthers. The 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. Bolzoni's examination of this phenomenon, in which archaic and modern elements came together in a precarious equilibrium, reveals the profound ties that existed at the time between memory and creativity, and between words and images. Drawing on the multiplicity of practices that relied on techniques of memory, Bolzoni presents diagrams, cipher alphabets, rebuses and emblemlike pictures characteristic of the late-Medieval and early-modern periods, indicating their use for literary games and preaching. In doing so, she skilfully reconstructs a particular mentality, a way of apprehending words and images that was of central importance for a long period of time but that has since been forgotten. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574.
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Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574. |
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Accademia Veneziana.
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Accademia Veneziana. |
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Accademia Veneziana. |
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Mnemonics.
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Mnemonics. |
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Italian literature -- Italy -- Venice -- History and criticism.
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Italian literature. |
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Italy -- Venice. |
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Venice (Italy) -- Imprints.
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1500-1599 |
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Electronic books.
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Bibliographies.
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Boekdrukkunst.
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Geheugentraining.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Illustraties.
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History.
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Literatuur.
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| Added Title |
Stanza della memoria. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001049356
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bolzoni, Lina. Stanza della memoria. English. Gallery of memory. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 0802043305 (DLC) 2001277939 (OCoLC)46620672 |
| ISBN |
9781442681330 (electronic book) |
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1442681330 (electronic book) |
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1282028502 |
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9781282028500 |
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0802043305 |
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9780802043306 |
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