Giulio Camillo

Giulio Camillo detto Delminio (* 1480 in Portogruaro, † 1544 in Milan ) was an Italian scholar, famous for its theater of wisdom or memory theater, a wooden building where the entire knowledge of the world should be saved by mnemonic images as in an encyclopedia. In this theater, which he had created a wooden model for use by one or two people, the observer stood on the stage, and the theater ranks were symbols positioned for all things of creation. Titian has such a symbol - an allegory of the time - actually painted.

Giulio Camillo was (according to other sources 1484 ) born in 1480 and was perhaps originally Bernardino. He studied, among others at the University of Padua, rhetoric and logic. In addition, he devoted himself to the study of the Hebrew language, the Kabbalah and the Neo-Platonic philosophy. The King of France supported his work financially in the memory theater, however, prevented the publication of the description of the whole, which appeared only after Giulio Camillo's death.

Works

• Il Teatro della Sapientia, 1530
• L'idea del Teatro, 1550
• De L' Imitation

Effect story

Giulio Camillo not only had great influence on his contemporaries such as Samuel Quiccheberg, the Nestor of the Museum of Science, but also to interface designers and computer artists. In 1966 the book The Art of Memory by Frances Yates, the Giulio Camillo called to the attention of scientists and artists. The computer is considered a modern form of the memory theater, next theater of memory be created as a physical and virtual installations.