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'An important book that does much to fill in and correct the work of her two major predecessors in the field of Renaissance memory craft, Paolo Rossi and Frances Yates.' -- Mary Carruthers, Professor of English and Director, Center for Research in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, New York University

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Lina Bolzoni is Professor of Italian Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Jeremy 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.