have been promulgated from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. We shall here briefly recapitulate the names of the principal writers on the subject, referring our readers to another part of this volume for an account of the different systems.
That luminary of science, Raymond Lully, born in 1236, seems to have been the first modern who brought the art of memory into notice, after it had lain dormant for so many ages. This art was termed transcendental, and distinguished by his name.
In the fifteenth century mnemonics seem to have occupied the attention of Publicius, Priis, Peter of Cologne, and Peter of Ravenna, who successively published systems of local and symbolical memory.
In the year 1533, Romberch published his Congestorium Artificiosa Memoria, which contains a very complete view of his predecessors' labours, with many important additions. Grataroli, an Italian physician, was the next writer on this subject, who in 1555, put forth a treatise, 'de memoria reparanda, etc.' This was translated into English by William Fulwod, under the title of the Castel of Memorie;' and afterwards rendered into French by Stephen Cope. The treatise of Grataroli contains much curious matter.
The works of Spangenberg, Rosselius, Bruno,
