Notes on Memory Treatises
- Publicus: wrote Oratoriae and used spheres in the universe as his theaters. The treatise is out of the medieval tradition.
- Quintilian: used art as a mnemotechnic, and recommended against utilizing an artificial memory.
- Peter of Ravenna: wrote the Phoenix, the most universally known of all memory texts. Introduced the idea of using an unfrequented church as a memory theatre.
- Romberch: wrote Congestorium and used the cosmos as a place system, making his work "Dantesque." Also used signs of the zodiac and real places on actual buildings as systems.
- Rossellius: wrote Thesaurus, using constellations, real places, and Dantesque images as place systems.
- In the 16th century, the printed book destroyed age-old memory habits and changed the need for memory treatises.
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