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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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Dante's Divine Comedy

Dante is providing strong imagery and language to assist one in remembering the content. One of the beautiful things about using the memory palace is that we have the ability to easily navigate the text and cross reference. Have you gained any interesting insights on the poem or recognize any patterns by virtue of memorizing the text? I think that partially my previous answer can also do this because you always find that Dante before going inside when he goes inside a new circle, for example, in hell,. The pattern that he uses is I give you all the sonographic elements to know where we are. This is the very first thing he does, because he wants you to paint it with the eyes of your mind.

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