The Art of Memory: Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno And The Mnemonic Tradition

The Art of Memory by Frances Yates is an incredible study of the memory techniques used by figures through history. From Giordano Bruno and Marsilio Ficino to John Dee, Ramon Llull, Martin Faulks and Nelson Dellis, The Art of Memory has been an incredible resource for thousands of people around the world. The only problem is... Yates is considered by many scholars to have been incorrect about so many of her ideas. She seems to have deeply misunderstood Bruno when it comes to hermeticism and that suggests she might be misguided by how he and others used the Memory Palace technique.