[The theater of the mind is] "marked with many images, and full of little boxes"
— Camillo, Giulio (1480-1544)
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Date
1532
Metaphor
[The theater of the mind is] "marked with many images, and full of little boxes"
Metaphor in Context
[The theater of the mind is] "marked with many images, and full of little boxes"
"The work is of wood, marked with many images, and full of little boxes; there are various orders and grades in it. He gives a place to each individual figure and ornament, and he showed me such a mass of papers that, though I always heard that Cicero was the fountain of richest eloquence, scarcely would I have thought that [...] so many volumes could be pieced together out of his writings."
"The work is of wood, marked with many images, and full of little boxes; there are various orders and grades in it. He gives a place to each individual figure and ornament, and he showed me such a mass of papers that, though I always heard that Cicero was the fountain of richest eloquence, scarcely would I have thought that [...] so many volumes could be pieced together out of his writings."
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Provenance
Reading Albano, Caterina. "Seeing the Mind: Considerations on Visual Metaphors of the Mind in Western Thought (16th-18th Centuries)." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 47.12 (2005): 843-48. Albano is quoting from Francis Yates' Art of Memory.
Citation
Albano, Caterina. "Seeing the Mind: Considerations on Visual Metaphors of the Mind in Western Thought (16th-18th Centuries)." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 47.12 (2005): 843-48. Albano quotes from Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (London, 1966) p.136.
Theme
Memory Theater
Date of Entry
05/11/2006
Date of Review
10/30/2006
