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In Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno Manuel Mertens unravels the enigmatic knot between the mnemonic treatises and the magical writings of the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno. Since long the magical orientation of the Brunian art of memory has been a preoccupation for Bruno scholars (like Paolo Rossi, Frances Yates and Rita Sturlese). This serious study of the philosophical underpinnings of both Bruno’s mnemonic treatises and his writings on magic shows that Bruno believed his mnemonic method could prevent demons from corrupting the cognitive process. Mertens’s focus on Bruno’s idea of deification through memory and the philosopher’s view on fiery heroic spirits points to a surprisingly literal reading of the heretic’s last words.
Price: $125.00
Pages: 244
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
14 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004358928
Format: Hardcover
"Manuel Mertens’s monograph offers a useful reassessment of Giordano Bruno’s operational conception of Knowledge [...] Mertens has written an accurate study of a very important area of Bruno’s philosophical inquiry. His aim has clearly been to reunite fundamental threads of Bruno’s work and describe the philosopher’s theoretical-practical approach to knowledge."
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in ISIS 101.2 (The History of Science Society)
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in ISIS 101.2 (The History of Science Society)
Manuel Mertens, Ph.D. (2011), Ghent University, has published several articles on magic, mnemonics, philosophy, geometry, and printing culture in the Renaissance. He teaches Latin in Antwerp, where he continues his research activities in affiliation with Ghent University.