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Cover illustration: A woodcut from Bruno’s Cantus Circaeus, courtesy of the National Library of the Netherlands (The Hague). This figure is taken from the mnemonic treatise Cantus Circaeus, which takes a central position in this book. The figure symbolizes well the way in which magic and mnemonics were intricated. The pig, referring to the sorceress Circe’s magic, is enclosed in a mnemonic wheel containing the initials of characteristics of the pig that the students in the art of memory had to memorise.
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mertens, Manuel, author.
Title: Magic and memory in Giordano Bruno : the art of a heroic spirit / by Manuel Mertens.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: Brill’s studies in intellectual history, ISSN 0920-8607 ; VOLUME 283 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022245 (print) | LCCN 2018023947 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004372672 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004358928 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Bruno, Giordano, 1548–1600. | Magic. | Memory.
Classification: LCC B783.Z7 (ebook) | LCC B783.Z7 M475 2018 (print) | DDC 195—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022245
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ISSN 0920-8607
ISBN 978-90-04-35892-8 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-37267-2 (e-book)
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