Manuel Mertens guides the reader through Bruno's mnemonic palaces, and shows how these fascinating intellectual constructions of the famous heretic philosopher

Published only posthumously, Giordano Bruno

In Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno Manuel Mertens unravels the enigmatic knot between the mnemonic treatises and the magical writings of the sixteenth-centur

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique

Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes h