The gallery of memory: Literary and iconograhic models in the age of the printing press.

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List of IllustrationsColour PlatesPrefaceCHAPTER 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 AcademyCHAPTER 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 SermonsCHAPTER 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 TextCHAPTER 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 LigorioCHAPTER 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 CastleNotesIndex