Research Catalog

Title

The art of remembering = L'arte di ricordare / Giovan Battista Della Porta ; a cura di Armando Maggi ; con un saggio di Frederick A. De Armas ; traduzione e cura di Miriam Aloisio ... [et al.].

Author

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615

Publication

Ravenna : A. Longo, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Aloisio, Miriam.
• De Armas, Frederick A., 1945-
• Maggi, Armando
• Seminario "Susan e Donald Mazzoni"

Description

166 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Il portico. Sezione Materiali ; 160

Uniform Title

• Arte del ricordare. English & Italian
• Portico 160.

Alternative Title

• Arte del ricordare.
• Arte di ricordare

Subject

• Memory
• Memory > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Early works
• Early works.

Note

• At head of title: "Susan and Donald Mazzoni" Seminar.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Original text in Italian with English translation; critical matter in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : under the sign of marvel : Della Porta's Art of memory as open-ended memoirs / Armando Maggi -- Giambattista della Porta : the impact of a Neapolitan playwright and magus in early modern England, France and Spain / Frederick A. De Armas -- The art of remembering = L'arte del ricordare / Giovan Battista della Porta -- Ulteriori strumenti critici. Writing, classical authority, and the intertext of memory : from Giambattista della Porta's "L'arte del ricordere" to the "Ars reminiscendi" / Gregory Baum. Biographical note / Miriam Aloisio.

ISBN

9788880637479 :

OCLC

840403774

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library