Notes on Ars memorativa in Gregor Reisch and Konrad Celtis

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  • Patricia López Diez
Keywords: Rhetorica, Cicero, Gregor Reisch, Konrad Celtis, Epitoma, Margarita Philosophica, memory, alphabet, mnemotecnics

Abstract

The first German encyclopaedia, entitled Margarita philosophica, was published in Freiburg in 1503. Its author, the Carthusian monk Gregor Reisch took the ideas for the third book, dedicated to the rhetoric, from the work of Konrad Celtis, Epitoma in utramque Ciceronis rhetoricam. At the end of the rhetoric part, the Margarita includes a brief Ars memorativa, which, still keeping an apparent resemblance to the work of Celtis, has some profound differences of conception, not rigorously studied to date. In this article, a comparative study of the two texts is shown, identifying the influences of the second on the first, similarities and differences, as well as the possible causes. Finally, the possible influence on the evolution of the arts of memory in the Renaissance has been analyzed.

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Published
09-03-2017
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López Diez, P. (2017). Notes on Ars memorativa in Gregor Reisch and Konrad Celtis. Myrtia, 31, 317–331. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/286961
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