L'analyse des manuscrits du traité d'Étienne de Bourbon - à ordre logique, et sans rubriques thématiques - montre comment le prédicateur pouvait se repérer dans cet ouvrage. Le savoir préalable de l'utilisateur est nécessaire pour ce... more
L'analyse des manuscrits du traité d'Étienne de Bourbon - à ordre logique, et sans rubriques thématiques - montre comment le prédicateur pouvait se repérer dans cet ouvrage. Le savoir préalable de l'utilisateur est nécessaire pour ce faire. D'un autre côté, les Artes praedicandi fournissent une technique pour retenir des exempla. L'appel à la tradition exigé par les recueils d'exempla à ordre logique ne résista pas face à l'irruption des recueils composés suivant l'ordre alphabétique ; quant à l'art mnémotechnique, il s'inclina devant l'invention de l'imprimerie.
John Willis’s 1618 Mnemonica, Sive Reminiscendi Ars explores, for the first time, a vivid and unsettling intermingling of the material, quotidian world and the gallery of the imagination. My aim in this essay is to consider the strangest... more
John Willis’s 1618 Mnemonica, Sive Reminiscendi Ars explores, for the first time, a vivid and unsettling intermingling of the material, quotidian world and the gallery of the imagination. My aim in this essay is to consider the strangest of Willis's productions, to gauge their distance from those produced by earlier arts of memory, and to suggest that they mark a new uncertainty about the relationship between the faculty of the imagination and the perception of the material world.
Giulio Camillo was a poet and a scholar active in the first half of the sixteenth century. Involved against Erasmus of Rotterdam in the controversies concerning imitatio, he sided with those who advocated Cicero as the only model of... more
Giulio Camillo was a poet and a scholar active in the first half of the sixteenth century. Involved against Erasmus of Rotterdam in the controversies concerning imitatio, he sided with those who advocated Cicero as the only model of language for Latin prose. Camillo made himself a reputation as the proponent of a method for inventing tropes based on the topics of argumentation. He became even more well-known as the designer of a theater that organized the entirety of what there is to be known according to a syncretic model that harmonized Christian, Neoplatonic, Hermetic, and Kabbalistic ideas, and that provided users with a repository of language enabling them to express any aspect of reality with single words and phrases gathered from the writings of classic poets and orators.
This article examines the influence exerted by the Aristotelian cognitive metarhetoric over the treatment of memory in Book 3 of the Rhetorica ad Herennium. Sections 3.16.28-29, 3.19.32 and 3.22.35-37 are read against the backdrop of the... more
This article examines the influence exerted by the Aristotelian cognitive metarhetoric over the treatment of memory in Book 3 of the Rhetorica ad Herennium. Sections 3.16.28-29, 3.19.32 and 3.22.35-37 are read against the backdrop of the core principles of Aristotle's psychological treatises on mind and memory, De Anima and De Memoria et Reminiscentia, together with the multifaceted concept of energeia, found in these treatises as well as in the Rhetoric and the Metaphysics. The results suggest that the psychology of memory of the Rhetorica ad Herennium and its rhetorical products are indebted to Aristotelian philosophy, with particular emphasis on the imagines agentes within the mnemonic system per locos et imagines.
Il testo può essere letto e scaricato al seguente link: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1165185 Si dà notizia della scoperta di un nuovo manoscritto del "Teatro della Memoria" di Giulio Camillo (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. Lat.... more
Il testo può essere letto e scaricato al seguente link: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1165185 Si dà notizia della scoperta di un nuovo manoscritto del "Teatro della Memoria" di Giulio Camillo (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. Lat. 2418 parte III, cc. 881r-908v).
The “Scientific Revolution” refers to historical, social, and institutional changes in thought and belief that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700. Given that the scientific method is only several centuries old, why aren’t... more
The “Scientific Revolution” refers to historical, social, and institutional changes in thought and belief that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700. Given that the scientific method is only several centuries old, why aren’t researchers and scholars just as conversant about those successful pre-scientific and artistic bases for knowledge-building and modeling our understandings that preceded the establishment of early scientific methods and arguably laid the groundwork for the revolution to follow? This article begins by exploring the “missing links” and precursors for the successes of the scientific method which are hidden in plain sight in the various arts of memory and other methodological experiments in the rational preservation and advance of experiential knowledge documented most thoroughly between 1300 and the early 1500s during the Renaissance in visual arts, literature, and other symbolic forms. This analysis concludes with some important speculations about the future of arts-based research in light of its illuminated legacy.
This paper examines a long-neglected aspect of Giulio Camillo's oeuvre: the role of the emotions and their systematic symbolisation via foot imagery in L'Idea del Theatro (1550) and De l'humana deificatione (c. 1542). A twofold hypothesis... more
This paper examines a long-neglected aspect of Giulio Camillo's oeuvre: the role of the emotions and their systematic symbolisation via foot imagery in L'Idea del Theatro (1550) and De l'humana deificatione (c. 1542). A twofold hypothesis is suggested: on the one hand, Camillo's negative association of feet with the emotions stems from his syncretic reading of Kabbalah and Christian theology; on the other, this conceptual blending is supported by the embodied cognitive dynamics intrinsic to the arts of memory's imagines agentes in the tradition of the Rhetorica ad Herennium.
This note reviews the new translation of Aristotle's De Anima and Parva Naturalia by Fred D. Miller Jr. Against its backdrop, the importance of these psychological treatises for interdisciplinary, rhetorical research is also analyzed,... more
This note reviews the new translation of Aristotle's De Anima and Parva Naturalia by Fred D. Miller Jr. Against its backdrop, the importance of these psychological treatises for interdisciplinary, rhetorical research is also analyzed, with special emphasis on both Aristotelian criticism and the arts of memory from Antiquity to the early modern period.
Esta nota reseña la nueva traducción del De Anima y los Parva Naturalia de Aristóteles firmada por Fred D. Miller Jr. A propósito de los textos, se analiza la importancia de estos tratados psicológicos para la investigación retórica interdisciplinar, tanto en la crítica aristotélica como en los estudios centrados en las artes de memoria desde la Antigüedad hasta la primera mitad de la Edad Moderna.
English abstract: Recent developments around climate and anthropization have had the positive effect of re-interrogating the environment and making audible some research related to the biodynamic and cognitive capacities elaborated of... more
English abstract: Recent developments around climate and anthropization have had the positive effect of re-interrogating the environment and making audible some research related to the biodynamic and cognitive capacities elaborated of organisms deprived of brain. These activities emanating from knowledge accumulating systems are largely underestimated and relocated in relation to the evolution of complex systems and to the place attributed to man in phylogeny. We will show by concrete examples how these strategies of plant-plant or interspecies communication impact at the same time the ecosystem, the perception-action loop and the plasticity of living systems. More generally, it is the operative mode of intelligences, 'vegetative' ontologies and the rule of the nature-culture interface that will be re-examined through this new mesological perspective.
Mémoires singulières, mémoires plurielles pose d'emblée la problématique : trouver le point où ce qui constitue notre vécu propre et l'épaisseur de notre identité s'articule à la mémoire du monde. C'est la quête de ce livre qui rassemble les actes d'un colloque transdisciplinaire qui réunissait les détenteurs de mémoires singulièrement orientées : mémoire de l'univers et de sa cosmicité, mémoire cognitive à la plasticité tantôt exacerbée, tantôt en déclin, mémoire de l'évolution et des traces du paléolithique, mémoire des formes et de la topologie des lieux, mémoire proustienne du fait littéraire en lien avec la recherche, mémoires humaines et souvenances divines arts de la mémoire, et en n mémoire de la vie. Autant de questionnements présentés à l'heure du dataïsme et de l'intelligence arti cielle par l'auteur comme un défrichage plastique des mémoires, à la fois sur les fondamentaux et sur nos mesures subjectives du fait mémoriel. Cet ouvrage tente ainsi de réhabiliter le sens des mémoires dans la période inédite de mutation radicale des cultures et de la condition humaine à laquelle nous assistons. Il s'agit avant tout de ne pas perdre nos identités – notre mémoire singulière – face à la l'hybridation, l'externalisation et la démultiplication programmée de mémoires pluralisées, de faire habilement co-évoluer dataïsme et plasticisme.
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