Contributor(s): Author: Giordano Bruno Translator: Scott Gosnell English edition.
The current edition is the first complete English translation to be published..
Bruno\'s works have been reprinted periodically since his death.
His work and life would lead him across the major centers of Renaissance Europe, to the patronage of kings and nobles, the scorn and envy of academics, and ultimately to his imprisonment and execution at the hands of the Roman Inquisition in 1600.
He published a series of books on the subject, beginning with De Umbris Idearum (On the Shadows of Ideas).
Giordano Bruno perfected the art in the late 16th Century.
This is the method of loci, or memory palace method, first developed in classical antiquity.
To memorize anything, distribute vivid, emotionally stirring imagined images around a piece of familiar architecture.
Contributor(s): Author: Giordano Bruno Translator: Scott Gosnell English edition
