Inventing Interfaces: Camillo’s Memory Theater and the Renaissance of Human-Computer Interaction (2020)
Matussek, Peter (Author)
University of California Press
Pages: 41-64
Publication date: 2020
Language: English
He called upon future generations of “wise men” (11)¹ to fulfill what he had left unfinished. Throughout the last two decades of his life, Giulio Camillo (1480?–1544) worked on his legendary Theatro , a room-size wooden construction in the style of the Vitruvian theater that supposedly contained “the Ideas of everything Celestial and Inferior” in symbolic form, thus enabling its visitor to memorize the entire cosmos. Although, or rather because, his “fabrica” had been seen by only a few people—the king of France and the Dutch statesman Viglius among them—it attracted the curiosity of his contemporaries. During an
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