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The Divine Comedy and the Art of Memorizing Epic Poetry w/ Vanni De Luca

The Craft of Memory Podcast

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How to Memorize the Divine Comedy

I'm sure that you would need a lot of memory policies to memorize the divine comedy. So how did you organize your policies? Do you have a certain number of loci per room or per palace? What does the structure look like? It started in this fashion. You can decide to take every triplet and to make that triplet to become an image. And you can place an image for each locus. But it's best to know the meaning, the more you know the meaning in the deep,. less images you have to use to codify three, six or nine verses.

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