Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Camillo, L'idea del theatro, Florence, 1550, nineteenth-century half vellum

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CAMILLO, GIULIO. L'Ideal del theatro dell'eccellen. m. Giulio Camillo. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550


FIRST EDITION of Camillo's description of his memory theatre, a work which circulated in manuscript during the author's lifetime. Italian humanists were fascinated in the relationship between architectural spaces and memory, building on the classical precepts of the ars memoria prescribed by Quintillian and Cicero. The idea behind this "method of loci" was to enable the storage of copious information in the mind's eye, in a systematic manner which would enable easy retrieval.

4to (207 x 141 mm). Roman type, 34 lines plus headline. collation: A-K4 L3: 43 leaves (only, of 44, lacking final blank). Title-page with woodcut device, woodcut initial. (Some marginal worming, foxing.)


binding: Nineteenth-century three-quarter vellum over marbled boards (218 x 152 mm). (Extremities rubbed.)


provenance: Pepperdine Library, library stamps—Drama Library, University of Washington, library stamps. acquisition: Purchased in 1988 from Powell's Books, Chicago. references: USTC 818096; Edit16 CNCE 8710; Adams, C-458

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