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Frida Kahlo

The Art of Memory Format:Paperback gathered together in one volumeThe ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importanceas it was to everyone before the invention of printingcreated an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing "places" and "images" on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, at the Renaissance, and particularly by the strange and remarkable genius, Giordano Bruno. Such is the