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Inventing Interfaces: Camillo’s Memory Theater and the Renaissance of Human-Computer Interaction (2020)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Simonetta, Marcello
Álvarez, Mari-Tere
Bertolini, Manuel
Black, Charlene Villaseñor
Asmussen, Tina
Zorzi, Francesco
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Symbolism; symbolic representation
Memory
Cosmology
Neoplatonism
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
15th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Florence (Italy)
Rome (Italy)
Paris (France)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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