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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press
|
| Country of origin: |
Canada |
| Series: |
Toronto Italian Studies |
| Release date: |
December 2019 |
| First published: |
2001 |
| Authors: |
Lina Bolzoni
|
| Translators: |
Jeremy Parzen
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4875-2495-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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| LSN: |
1-4875-2495-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781487524951 |
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