Notes on Giulio Camillo
- Created a wooden memory theatre, funded by the King of France. It was based on Roman theaters described by Vitruvius.
- The theatre consisted of seven gangways with seven gates or doors, representing the seven gates of Solomon, signifying the most stable eternity of the seven planets. Here are what the gates represent:
2. Banquet: Creation
3. Cave: Elements (Homeric)
4. Gorgon Sisters: Man's soul made in God's image
5. Pasiphe and the Bull: Man's body
6. Sandals: Natural operations of man
7. Prometheus: Arts, sciences, religion and law
- In his theatre, the world was seen from a height, supercelestially.
- Was learned in Hebrew mystical tradition and Cabala.
- Theories were based on neoplatonism, not scholasticism.
- Was a Christian Hermetist, believing that the spiritus mundi was the spirit of Christ.
- Believed that perfect proportions on natural designs coincided with celestial harmony.
- By this point in time, Yates says, "The art of memory has become an occult art, a Hermetic secret."
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