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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 a Verse

When I am in the middle of what I'm using the mnemonic systems, but as well I want to know by heart every single word. To memorize that, I use the acrostics and acronyms. For example, in Italian, I have a facini la revolution, la resolution, which is a sentence that translated is like: I do the revolution, I do the resolution by myself. It helps me to remember that if we navigate the circle of fourths, we have an F, a fa, C, so we have a B flat, then any flat and so forth. But it's better also for recalling process to focus a lot on repeat by heart

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