La memoria verborum en el Congestorium artificiosae memoriae de Johannes Romberch

Abstract

From classical rhetoric onwards, it has been acknowledged that memory can help to remember words as well as content, that is, memoria verborum versus memoria rerum. Although the volume of the treatises on ars memorativa had been progressively increasing, there is no integral explanation for the uses and applications of memoria verborum. Likewise, in modern studies, this method has sometimes been confused with the formation of images from their signifier (imagines vocales or a verbo). In the present article a definition of this resource in the light of the encyclopaedic work of Johannes Romberch, author of the Congestorium artificiosae memoriae (Venice, 1520) is offered.