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“This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was a vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing places and images on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which intern was inherited by the Romans, passing into the European tradition, to be revived, in a cold farm, during the Renaissance. Francis Yates sheds light on Dante’s “Devine Comedy”, the form of the Shakespeare Theatre, and the history of ancient architecture; “The Art of Memory” is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology into the history of philosophy, of science end of literature.-Cover Summary This is a preowned book in very good condition. Please see photos.