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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 Balance Studying and Memorization in a Text Like the Divine Comedy

How much time should be spent in studying a text like the meaning of the Divine Comedy versus the actual memorization? So, so how do you balance that between studying and memorizing? What is their percentage like that you think is an ideal balance? Okay, if you're going to use images, if someone uses mnemonics like memory palaces and images, I think the best way is always to give a kind of 60% at the beginning. That's why you focus on the meaning in the very first instance. Then you, of course, the other 40%, as long as you go with themeaning of the first verses,. You go with the memorization, so it's

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