List of Contributors; Foreword: The Art of Memory and a New Season of Studies; Introduction: Mental Libraries. The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture; PART I: Crafting the Mental Library: Memory Systems and their Cultural Contexts;
1. The Use of Major and Minor Loci in the Liber Memoriae Artificialis by Bartolomeo da Mantova (1429);
2. The Enchantment of Memory: Observations on Giordano Bruno’s Cantus Circaeus;
3. Pedagogy of Memory: Albertus Carrara’s De Omnibus Ingeniis Augendae Memoriae;
4. “Traduttore, traditore”? How Early Mnemonic Knowledge Is Shaped by Translations;
5. The Body as a Mnemonic Aid for Learning Grammar;
6. Diagrammatizing the Art of Memory: Two Examples of Tree Diagrams in Mnemonic Treatises from the 15th Century; PART II: Reimagining the Mental Library: Cultural and Literary Transformations of Memory;
7. Encyclopedic Mnemonics in Diego Valades’ Rhetorica Christiana;
8. The Machiavellian Movement: Acquiring Virtues through the Body;
9. Burton’s Mental Library: The Anatomy of Melancholy and the Art of Memory;
11. Memory in De sacris concionibus recte formandis (Rome, 1543) by Alfonso Zorrilla;
12. The Geography of Memory and Hispanic Poets of the Golden Age;
13. Local Memory and Literary Landscape in Petrarch; Index