Gallery of Memory

Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press

AvLina Bolzoni

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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'etÀ 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Italian Studies
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487524951
Översättare:Jeremy Parzen

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Lina Bolzoni is Professor of Italian Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, PisaJeremy Parzen earned his Ph.D. in Italian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an independent scholar living in New York City.

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List of IllustrationsColour PlatesPreface CHAPTER ONEMaking Knowledge Visible: The Accademia Veneziana1 Federico Badoer and the Founding of the Accademia Veneziana2 The Editorial Program: The New Vernacular Literature and 'Ancient Knowledge'3 The Structure of the Visual Encyclopedia4 The Places of Knowledge: The Library and the Palazzo5 The Academy's Political Aspirations6 The Collapse of the Academy CHAPTER TWOTrees of Knowledge and Rhetorical Machines1 The Easy Road to Knowledge or the Joy of Method2 The Tables of Sacred and Profane Rhetoric3 The Map of Possible Texts4 Orazio Toscanella: The Intellectual as Teacher and Publishe5 Against Pedants and in Support of the Vernacular and Useful, Helpful Books6 The Labyrinth of Words and the Order of the Library7 Rhetoric Machines8 The Art of Memory: Access to Rhetoric Machines9 Machines Used to Construct Sermons CHAPTER THREEMemory Games1 The Game of Imitation2 The Metamorphosis of Writing: Calligraphy, Ciphers, and the Rebus3 Ciphered Codes and Images of Memory: The Model of the Machine and the Fascination with Secrets4 Games That Generate Texts5 Texts That Produce GamesCHAPTER FOURBody and Soul: The Nature of Images1 The Map of the Soul and Medicine for Memory2 The Power of Imagination and the Toil of Forgetting3 The Phantasmata of Eros and Images of Memory4 The Window Opening onto the Heart5 The Theatre of Passions between Memory, Rhetoric, and Physiognomy6 The Body and the Text CHAPTER FIVEHow to Translate Words into Images: Memory and Invention1 The Memory of Images and Iconological Repertories2 The Places of Memory and Topical Places3 The Text as a Building4 Doni's Theatre: An Illusionistic Game5 Poems and Galleries: The Metaphors Used by Galileo the Literary Critic6 How to Translate a Narrative into a Cycle of Images7 The Illustrated Book8 Biography and Portraiture9 Memory and Invention: Francesco Sansovino and Pirro Ligorio CHAPTER SIXThe Art of Memory and Collecting1 Samuel Quicchelberg's Theatre and the Metaphors of Memory2 Collecting and the Art of Memory: Shared Mythology3 The Collection as a Theatre of Memory4 Treatises on Memory and the Model of the Collection5 Dolls and Wax Images6 The Wunderkammer and the Internal Castle NotesIndex