John Florio, Giordano Bruno and the Art of Memory w/ Marianna Iannaccone
The Craft of Memory Podcast
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The Art of Memory
John Florio's greatest talent actually was to use reuse and re-adapt the works of his predecessors. He borrowed from Ariosto Boccaccio his contemporary he made references to them in his work in second fruits as well. To have the ability to write with such a magnitude like we take the divine comedy by Dante I would imagine that you would need to be trained in the the art of of memory umUm so what about John Florio uh was did he use a lot of of references in his in his works absolutely a lot of illusions could you briefly share some of that?
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