Marcus Tullius Cicero
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THE ART OF MEMORY
FRANCIS A. YATES 1966
THREE LATIN SOURCES FOR THE CLASSICAL ART OF MEMORY
Page 111
MEDIEVAL MEMORY AND THE FORMATION OF IMAGES
"Patrarch makes his allusions to the art by introducing examples of men of antiquity famed for good memories and
associating these with the classical art. His paragraph the memories of Lucullus and Hortensius begin;- 'Memory
is two kinds, one for things, one for words.' 57
LUCULLUS 33333331 LUCULLUS
Mail, Thursday, November 17, 2011
Answers to corespondents
Compiled by Charles Legge
Page 70
QUESTION The W.B Yeats poem Mad As Mists and snow name checks Homer,Horace, Cicero and Tully ( 'and here is
Tilly's open page') Who is Tully?
Tully and Cicero are one and the same person - the Roman statesman and philosopher whose full Latin name was
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43).
David Bradbury, London.
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FRANCIS A. YATES 1966
THREE LATIN SOURCES FOR THE CLASSICAL ART OF MEMORY
Page 111
MEDIEVAL MEMORY AND THE FORMATION OF IMAGES
"Patrarch makes his allusions to the art by introducing examples of men of antiquity famed for good memories and
associating these with the classical art. His paragraph the memories of Lucullus and Hortensius begin;- 'Memory
is two kinds, one for things, one for words.' 57
LUCULLUS 33333331 LUCULLUS
Mail, Thursday, November 17, 2011
Answers to corespondents
Compiled by Charles Legge
Page 70
QUESTION The W.B Yeats poem Mad As Mists and snow name checks Homer,Horace, Cicero and Tully ( 'and here is
Tilly's open page') Who is Tully?
Tully and Cicero are one and the same person - the Roman statesman and philosopher whose full Latin name was
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43).
David Bradbury, London.
More interesting facts on this link
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... 201099.htm