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The art of memory

by Frances A. Yates

This study explores how people retained vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printing press, tracing the art of memory from ancient Greek orators, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to the seventeenth century.

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Frances A. Yates
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