John Florio, Giordano Bruno and the Art of Memory w/ Marianna Iannaccone
The Craft of Memory Podcast
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Language Lessons Monor - The Memory Powers of John Florio
John Florio used these special markings on his works as memory aids. When the character says you will never make statues, this part of a dialogue are marked with an asterisk. You want to underline that that is a sentence worthy of being remembered and to place it in the readers of memory policy. So do you understand that that wasn't a mere language lessons monor was a compendium of different aphorism, proverbs, plots, the froyal borrowed and reused in his work?
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